Lamp Post Located Near Number 16 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1998. Lamp-post.
Lamp Post Located Near Number 16
- WRENN ID
- young-vestry-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1998
- Type
- Lamp-post
- Address
- Lamp Post Located Near Number 16, the Retreat, Frome
- OS grid reference
- ST 785 476
- Coordinates
- 51.22777, -2.3087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lamp-post located near number 16 at The Retreat in Frome, likely made between 1901 and 1904 by Singer. It features a cast-iron fluted standard with pedestal mouldings, a tapered shaft, and ladder-rests. At the top, there is a moulded finial with a crook-shaped lamp bracket that has wrought-iron Art Nouveau leaf decoration. The lamp itself is modern. The lamp standard seems to have originally been designed for gas lighting but has been adapted for electricity. It is similar to other listed lamp-posts in Frome.
Local climate
Lamp Post Located Near Number 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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