Pillar Box near north east corner of junction with Slatey Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1987. Pillar box.
Pillar Box near north east corner of junction with Slatey Road
- WRENN ID
- fallow-loft-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1987
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box near north east corner of junction with Slatey Road, Balls Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 309 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38453, -3.0398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pillar box located near the northeast corner of the junction with Slatey Road in Birkenhead, Claughton. It was made around 1856 by Smith and Hawkes of Birmingham for the General Post Office. The pillar box is made of cast iron and painted red. It features a circular column with 16 flutes on a moulded base and a moulded top band that supports a low conical cap. The top band displays the words "Post Office" in raised letters, along with a royal cypher, VR, with a central crown on either side. Below this band, there is a vertical posting slot with "Letter Box" incised in small letters within a raised frame. Additionally, there is a square framed panel below for collection information, and the door to the box is located at the rear. Only about eight boxes of this type are still in use by the Post Office.
Local climate
Pillar Box near north east corner of junction with Slatey Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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