Lamp Post in Front of No 9 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1983. Lamp post.
Lamp Post in Front of No 9
- WRENN ID
- tenth-balcony-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1983
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Lamp Post in Front of No 9, Whittox Lane, Frome, BA11 3BY
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 480
- Coordinates
- 51.23158, -2.32442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post in front of No. 9 Whittox Lane was created between 1901 and 1904 by the local metal firm of Singers. It features a cast-iron standard with a crook designed to suspend lamps, which is adorned with art-nouveau style ornamentation. This lamp post has been adapted for town lighting and represents an early provincial example of electrification.
Local climate
Lamp Post in Front of No 9 receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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