Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Steps, lamp standards.

Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School

WRENN ID
pitched-ember-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 2010
Type
Steps, lamp standards
Address
Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School, Lansdown Road, BA1 5SZ
OS grid reference
ST 746 664
Coordinates
51.39696, -2.36546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The steps and lamp standards at the Royal High School were built around 1858 and are possibly part of a design by James Wilson for the school. The structure features dressed stone steps and cast-iron lamp standards. There is a flight of eight stone steps leading to the main entrance of the school, flanked by low walls with triangular coping, which are capped by square blocks at both the top and bottom. The top blocks are accompanied by decorative iron lamp posts that were originally intended for gaslight. These features have a strong group value with the school buildings and may either be original or could date from extensions and alterations made in the 1880s.

Local climate

Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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