Lamp Standard, Beach Crescent, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991.

Lamp Standard, Beach Crescent, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
ghost-passage-pigeon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
OS grid reference
NO 462 306
Coordinates
56.46506, -2.87372
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These eight tall cast-iron lamp standards, dating to circa 1900, are located along Beach Crescent in Broughty Ferry, Dundee. A ninth, shorter lamp standard stands opposite number 31 Beach Crescent. The lamp standards likely date from the introduction of electric lighting to Broughty Ferry, an event authorised by the ‘Broughty Ferry Electric Lighting Order, 1900’. Each standard has a round base featuring a depiction of Broughty Castle and the inscription 'Burgh of Broughty Ferry’ on the inspection door. The bases are adorned with foliate moulding that transitions to slender round columns punctuated by ladder posts. The lamp heads are richly decorative, featuring a starfish motif. The shorter lamp standard has a richly moulded tiered base, a shaft with a patera and lattice design, and an anthemion capital, though the lantern is now missing. Further details are recorded in J Malcolm’s Parish of Monifieth (1910), page 263.

Local climate

Lamp Standard, Beach Crescent, Broughty Ferry, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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