Pillar Box Surmounted by Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31 is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. Pillar box, gas lamp.
Pillar Box Surmounted by Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31
- WRENN ID
- sharp-plaster-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1988
- Type
- Pillar box, gas lamp
- OS grid reference
- SD 895 135
- Coordinates
- 53.61862, -2.15925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pillar box topped with a gas lamp, located next to number 31 on Toad Lane. The pillar box is dated 1866 and was made by Cochrane Glove and Co. The gas lamp, which is of a similar age, was attached later. Both the box and lamp have been moved from their original locations. The pillar box is made of cast iron and has a cylindrical base, featuring the inscription 'COCHRANE GLOVE & Co / WOODSIDE WORKS / DUDLEY 1866'. It does not have a royal cipher and includes annulets and a horizontal slit beneath a hexagonal cap. The gas lamp is bolted on top of the box and has a gadrooned-vase foot, a fluted shaft with a foliated capital, and a hexagonal lantern topped with a turned finial. The pillar box is a particularly rare example, with another noted in H Aaron's book, "Pillar to Post," published in 1982.
Local climate
Pillar Box Surmounted by Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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