Lamp Post Before Number 1 is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1972. Lamp post.

Lamp Post Before Number 1

WRENN ID
carved-mantel-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1972
Type
Lamp post
Address
Lamp Post Before Number 1, Castle Street, Farnham
OS grid reference
SU 839 468
Coordinates
51.21501, -0.79911
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lamp post located before number 1 Castle Street is a listed structure from the later 19th century. It features a tapering octagonal shaft made of painted cast iron, with decorative bands of necking. The lamp post stands on an octagonal plinth and supports a quadrangular lamp that is topped with cresting. This lamp post is part of a group of listed buildings that includes numbers 1 to 9 Lowndes Buildings on the west side of Castle Street.

Local climate

Lamp Post Before Number 1 receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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