Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place

Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the NW of No. 6 Exmouth Place, Exmouth Place, Hastings

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Overview

A gas lighting column of late C19 date. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096114
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2002
List Entry Name:: Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place
Statutory Address:: Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the NW of No. 6 Exmouth Place, Exmouth Place, Hastings

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096114
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2002
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-2015
List Entry Name:: Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place
Statutory Address 1:: Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the NW of No. 6 Exmouth Place, Exmouth Place, Hastings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the NW of No. 6 Exmouth Place, Exmouth Place, Hastings

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Hastings (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 82328 09601

Summary

A gas lighting column of late C19 date.

Reasons for Designation

A gas light lamp post column close to Exmouth Place, Hastings, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date: the column dates from the late C19; * Design interest: this is a non-standard design by the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Company with a more rounded octagonal base and a more elaborate column than the standard design, and with a tulip design at the top; * Rarity and intactness: there were only a few columns of this type in Hastings and this may now be the only remaining example; the column is also intact.

History

The Hastings and District Gas Lighting Co operated from the gas works in Queens Road from 1832.

This column does not appear on the 1873 Ordnance Survey Map and is probably of later C19 date. It is not of the standard pattern of the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Co introduced from the 1870s onwards, surviving examples of which are listed in St Mary's Terrace, and it was never as numerous as the standard pattern. It may now be the only surviving example of this design in Hastings. No inscription is visible on the base of the column which is partially concealed by ivy and sunk into the ground.

In the 1920s the column was converted to electricity by the addition of a rectangular electricity box of the Brighton Lighting and Electricity Engineering Company, a company which was founded by Henry Heaps in 1921, and it had the remains of a manual switch on the outside.

This structure was statutorily listed in 2002. An inspection in July 2015 showed that the BLEECO electricity box with remains of a manual switch had been removed and the original swans neck bracket had been replaced with one of a different profile. It is reported that the electricity box was taken into protective custody by the owner of the adjoining property when these works were carried out.

Details

Gas lighting column, later converted to electricity. A later C19 column for the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Co.

MATERIALS: cast iron.

DESCRIPTION: comprises a tapering fluted column about 2.5m high with two decorative bands, a tulip-shaped top and a moulded octagonal base. At the top of the column is a replacement bracket which supports a late C20 electric light.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490080
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.