Gas Lantern and Column at Corner of Fox's Cross Road is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1977. Lantern.
Gas Lantern and Column at Corner of Fox's Cross Road
- WRENN ID
- silver-flagstone-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1977
- Type
- Lantern
- Address
- Gas Lantern and Column at Corner of Fox's Cross Road, Pean Hill, Blean
- OS grid reference
- TR 109 625
- Coordinates
- 51.323, 1.0267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gas lantern and column at the corner of Fox's Cross Road, located on the south side, date from the mid-19th century. It features a cast iron fluted column topped with a square lantern that has four curved ogee braces. The lantern has a smaller base than its top and a sloping roof adorned with anthemion foliage at each of the four corners. It also includes two bell vents and a finial on top. This lantern is gas lit.
Local climate
Gas Lantern and Column at Corner of Fox's Cross Road 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.
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