Lamp post at the southern end of Park Parade

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Cast iron street lamp post, originally designed for electricity, installed 1899 or later. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1423952
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-2016
List Entry Name:: Lamp post at the southern end of Park Parade

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1423952
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-2016
List Entry Name:: Lamp post at the southern end of Park Parade
Location Description:: Sited on the northern side of the junction between Park Parade and York Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire

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.

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Location

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE3097255107

Summary

Cast iron street lamp post, originally designed for electricity, installed 1899 or later.

Reasons for Designation

The street lamp post at the southern end of Park Parade is listed Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date: as an early example of a lamp post designed for electricity, the design being specific to Harrogate and dating from 1899, there being less than around a dozen of this design to survive in the town; * Design: for the interest of its elaborate decorative treatment, the design being a good example of Victorian mass-produced yet decorative street furniture, and a relatively early design intended for electricity.

History

Harrogate’s first electric powered street lamps were installed in 1899, just two years after electricity first became available in the town. The design of these lamp posts is thought to have been based on gas lamp posts installed in Victoria Avenue in the 1860s by the Victoria Park Company, being much taller than those installed by the Harrogate Gas Company from 1848 onwards. It is not known when this particular example was installed. The lanterns, with their supporting brackets, are late C20 replacements.

Details

Street lamp post, 1899 or later, lanterns replaced late C20.

FORM: a tall, cast iron post with a cylindrical base including an access door featuring the Harrogate coat of arms. Above this there is a series of bands leading to a beaded ring from which rises a pair of acanthus leaves which clasp the flared bottom of the post. After four further bands, including a flange and a crown of palm leaves, the post is a plain circular column until it reaches a square block which supports the ball-ended ladder supports. The top of the post is bell-ended, carrying further embossed decoration. The modern supports for the replacement light fittings are attached to the post above this point, being scroll work formed from steel rather than cast or wrought iron, the pair of lanterns being based on the early C20 ‘Rochester’ design.

Sources

Websites
1924 photograph of a similar lamp post in Harrogate, accessed 21/4/2016 from http://www.francisfrith.com/harrogate/harrogate-royal-hotel-1924_75644

Legal

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

The listed building is shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.