NUVO Lighting SF77-898 1-Light, 13in Coach Post Top Lantern with Finial, Beveled Acrylic Panels, Black Finish

Wet location rated, so the SF77-898 coach post lantern can take direct rain and is not limited to a covered porch or soffit. It carries a cULus safety listing, which is what most inspectors and facility specs want to see on an exterior fixture. Housing panels are polycarbonate rather than glass, which is the practical choice on parking lots, walkways and multi-family grounds where a glass panel gets broken and replaced every season.

This is a post top lantern, mounted on a pole or post rather than a wall. It sits over the top of the post, so it replaces a post top head, not a wall lantern or a pier mount. The fixture body measures 7.75 by 7.75 by 12.5 inches and weighs 1.18 lbs, so it is light enough that an existing post in decent condition carries it without reinforcement. Measure the outside diameter of your post top before you order, since the fitter has to seat on it.

No lamp is included. It takes one medium base E26 bulb in an A19 shape, rated to 60W maximum at 120V. Any standard A19 LED with an E26 base and a wet or damp location rating works here and will draw far less than the 60W ceiling. For a property with a lot of these, buying the lamp separately is usually the point anyway, since it lets you standardize color temperature across the whole site.

It is a lamp-ready incandescent-technology fixture, not an integral LED. There is no built-in board or driver and no selectable color temperature, so whatever LED A19 you screw in sets the color and the lumens. That is an advantage for a property manager: when the light fails you change a bulb instead of the whole head, and you can change color temperature later without touching the fixture.

A post top like the SF77-898 puts light out at post height along a path or driveway entrance where there is no wall to mount to, and it throws light in all directions around the post. A wall lantern only makes sense where the fixture can sit next to a door or on a building face. If you already have posts in the ground with dead or dated heads, the post top is the direct swap; if you are lighting a doorway, buy a wall lantern instead. This one is a traditional coach style with a finial and beveled panels, so it matches older colonial and traditional building fronts rather than contemporary ones.

Black is the only finish this coach lantern is built in, ordered under MPN SF77/898. That makes fleet matching simple across a campus or an apartment community: every unit you order is the same black, so there is no risk of a later batch arriving in a slightly different finish family. If your site standard is bronze or another color, this is not the fixture to standardize on.

Yes, lead is the listed Prop 65 chemical for this post lantern, so a warning applies for California jobs and institutional purchasers who track it. The fixture is also RoHS compliant. If you are buying for a government or healthcare facility with a Prop 65 disclosure requirement in the PO, that is the value to enter.