Pair of Lamp Standards with Pedestals at North Entrance of Rock Park is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Lamp standards.
Pair of Lamp Standards with Pedestals at North Entrance of Rock Park
- WRENN ID
- scattered-corridor-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Lamp standards
- Address
- Pair of Lamp Standards with Pedestals at North Entrance of Rock Park, Barnstaple
- OS grid reference
- SS 560 327
- Coordinates
- 51.07555, -4.05569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of lamp standards with pedestals is located at the north entrance of Rock Park in Barnstaple. These were likely installed in 1879, although they now feature late 20th-century tops. The pedestals are made of limestone and are square in shape with panelled sides. Each pedestal has a moulded cap topped with a triangular pediment on each side, which encloses octagonal bases for the lamp standards. The standards themselves have round, tapered shafts that are fluted and decorated, supported at the base by four scrolls. Additional scrolls extend horizontally below the moulded cap, from which a late 20th-century shaft and electric lamp holder rise. An early 20th-century photograph from Knights Photographers of Barnstaple shows the original tops of the lamp standards. Rock Park was opened in 1879 and was designed by R.D. Gould.
Local climate
Pair of Lamp Standards with Pedestals at North Entrance of Rock Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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