Lamp post at the east end of Trinity Road
Lamp Post No.6, Trinity Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1444987
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp post at the east end of Trinity Road
- Statutory Address:
- Lamp Post No.6, Trinity Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1444987
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp post at the east end of Trinity Road
- Location Description:
- Sited on the traffic island at the east end of Trinity Road, on the junction with Leeds Road.
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lamp Post No.6, Trinity Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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:
- Lamp Post No.6, Trinity Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrogate
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3035354514
Summary
Decorative cast iron street lamp post, designed for Harrogate’s first electric street lighting installed from 1899 onwards.
Reasons for Designation
The street lamp post at the east end of Trinity Road is listed Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Historic interest:
* Date: as an early example of a lamp post designed for electricity, the design being specific to Harrogate and dating from 1899, one of only eight of this design thought to survive in the town;
Architectural interest:
* 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 three lanterns being based on the early C20 ‘Rochester’ design.
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.
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