Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 5
GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NUMBER 5, CLARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393950
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 5
- Statutory Address:
- GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NUMBER 5, CLARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393950
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 5
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NUMBER 5, CLARE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NUMBER 5, CLARE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44199 57618
Reasons for Designation
The gas lamp post between no. 5 Clare Road, Cambridge is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORIC INTEREST: This is an unusual example of a finely-detailed C19 gas lamp post.
* INTACTNESS: It is still lit by gas.
Details
667/0/10194 CLARE ROAD 07-SEP-10 Gas lamp post outside number 5
II Street lamp erected by the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company, c. 1889.
DESCRIPTION Made of cast iron to a design loosely based on the classical column, the lamp consists of a fluted shaft which tapers slightly towards the top before splaying out to form a plain banded capital. A simple four-sided lantern of metal and glass, crowned with a simple round finial detail, rests upon four curved metal supports, and a ladder-rest projects from its base.
HISTORY Gas was introduced to Cambridge in about 1822 by John Grafton. He made gas from oil for street lighting in 1823, producing gas from coal a little later and finally moving his production site to the riverside for ease of coal delivery. An Act of 1834 converted his company to the Cambridge Gas-Light Company, which in 1867 became the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company. Gas production ceased on the riverside site in 1969 following the introduction of North Sea gas into Cambridge. The gas lamp in Clare Road dates from the late C19 and is still supplied with gas, having remained in use to the present day.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The gas lamp post outside no.s 4 and 5 South Green Road, Cambridge is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORIC INTEREST: It is an unusual example of a finely-detailed C19 gas lamp post. * It is still lit by gas.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 506975
- 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.
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