lamp standard — Stonyford

The record classifies lamp standard — Stonyford as lamp standard. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.

No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.

The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.

The public record still identifies the place as lamp standard. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.

lamp standard — Stonyford matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An attractive component of the street furniture of Stoneyford representing an early-surviving feature of mass-produced cast-iron ware. Profiled detailing throughout identifies the artistic design significance of the composition while the survival of the artefact is of importance as a reminder of the mechanisms put in place to light streets in the period before rural electrification. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.