Lamp Standard, Chambers Street is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 May 2010. Lamp standard.

Lamp Standard, Chambers Street

WRENN ID
waning-beam-dock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 May 2010
Type
Lamp standard
Address
Lamp Standard, Chambers Street, EH1 1HR
OS grid reference
NT 259 734
Coordinates
55.94801, -3.18678
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a decorative wrought-iron lamp standard designed by E J MacRae in the early 20th century. It is located on a pedestrian island and features a triangular-plan plinth with engaged Doric columns. The lamp standard has a shaft with consoles, anthemion detailing, and panels displaying a castle motif at the base. The hexagonal shaft is topped with a tapered decorative finial that holds a modern glass globe.

Local climate

Lamp Standard, Chambers Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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