Gas Lantern and Column Opposite No 2 is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1977. Gas lantern.
Gas Lantern and Column Opposite No 2
- WRENN ID
- shifting-merlon-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1977
- Type
- Gas lantern
- Address
- Gas Lantern and Column Opposite No 2, Argyle Road, CT5 1JS
- OS grid reference
- TR 107 663
- Coordinates
- 51.35693, 1.0254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This mid-19th century gas lantern and column is located on Argyle Road, opposite No. 2. The structure features a cast iron octagonal fluted column topped with four ogee curved braces that support a square lantern. The lantern has a smaller base than its top and is topped with a sloping roof that ends in anthemion foliage at each of the four corners. It also includes two bell vents and a finial.
Local climate
Gas Lantern and Column Opposite No 2 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings