Balustrade and Lamp Post to Rock Park Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Balustrade, lamp post.
Balustrade and Lamp Post to Rock Park Lodge
- WRENN ID
- lunar-terrace-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Balustrade, lamp post
- Address
- Balustrade and Lamp Post to Rock Park Lodge, New Road, Barnstaple
- OS grid reference
- SS 562 326
- Coordinates
- 51.07471, -4.05304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustrade and lamp post at Rock Park Lodge, likely dating from 1879, features a timber balustrade and a cast-iron lamp standard set on a stone base, designed in a Free Baroque style. The railings run along New Road, marking the boundary of the garden for Rock Park Lodge. The balustrade includes a moulded brick plinth and heavy turned balusters that reflect a 17th-century character. The lamp standard stands on a square-section pedestal with sunk panels, adorned with four gables and an octagonal base. The standard is stamped with "Geo. Smith and Co., Sun Foundry, Glasgow" and is decorated with heavy S-shaped scrolled brackets, anthemion motifs, and a scrolly ladder rest. It features a tapering cylindrical lamp topped with a conical finial. Rock Park was opened in 1879 and was designed by R.D. Gould.
Local climate
Balustrade and Lamp Post to Rock Park Lodge 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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