GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20

GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20, MILLINGTON ROAD

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Overview

Street lamp erected by the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company, c. 1889. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394512
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-2010
List Entry Name:: GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20
Statutory Address:: GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20, MILLINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394512
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-2010
List Entry Name:: GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20
Statutory Address 1:: GAS LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20, MILLINGTON ROAD

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 LAMP POST OUTSIDE NO. 20, MILLINGTON 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 44073 57261

Reasons for Designation

The gas lamp outside no.20 Millington 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. * It is still lit by gas. * GROUP VALUE: It forms part of an ensemble of 10 other listable gas lamp posts of the same date and design in Millington Road.

Details

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667/0/10186 MILLINGTON ROAD 07-SEP-10 Gas lamp post outside No. 20

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 on a circular base which is set on an octagonal plinth. The shaft tapers slightly before splaying out to form a plain banded capital. A simple four-sided lantern of metal and glass, crowned with a simple spike finial, 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. Millington Road was built on land owned by King's College in 1889 and supplied with gas by the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company soon after. The gas lamps are still supplied with gas and have remained in use to the present day.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The gas lamp outside no.20 Millington 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. * It is still lit by gas. * GROUP VALUE: It forms part of an ensemble of 10 other listable gas lamp posts of the same date and design in Millington Road.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 506945
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.