Lamp-Post Opposite Green Dragon Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Lamp-post.

Lamp-Post Opposite Green Dragon Hotel

WRENN ID
former-bracket-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1985
Type
Lamp-post
Address
Lamp-Post Opposite Green Dragon Hotel, Portland Square, Workington
OS grid reference
NY 006 285
Coordinates
54.64255, -3.54111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a Victorian lamp-post located opposite the Green Dragon Hotel in Workington. It is made of cast iron and features a round column with patterned fluted and leaf decoration. The lamp-post includes ladder brackets. The 20th-century lamp attached to it is not considered of interest. The lamp-post is listed for its group value with the Green Dragon Hotel.

Local climate

Lamp-Post Opposite Green Dragon Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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