Triple Lamp Standard Approximately 35 Metres to North of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Street furniture.
Triple Lamp Standard Approximately 35 Metres to North of Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- small-landing-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- Street furniture
- OS grid reference
- ST 550 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20925, -2.64497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The triple lamp standard, located approximately 35 metres north of the Town Hall in Wells, dates from around 1860 and is signed by Felix Thomas from Weston-super-Mare. This lamp standard is made of cast iron and stands on a stone base. It features a square plinth with a moulded base that rests on a stone-paved area, approximately 1.5 metres square. The plinth transitions to a circular moulded base, leading to a slender tapered shaft topped with a moulded "cotton-reel" capital. From this capital, three overthrow arms extend to support banded cylindrical pendant lamps, which have flared hoods and hemispherical glass protectors. The overthrow arms are held up by thin wrought-iron scrolls, culminating in a decorative pinnacle. Originally gas-lit, the lamp standard has been converted to electricity. Historical photographs from 1905 and 1942 show it painted white. This lamp standard is a fine example of 19th-century street furniture and bears similarities to another standard found on Cathedral Green.
Local climate
Triple Lamp Standard Approximately 35 Metres to North of Town Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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