Pillar Box 23, Alton Road (At Junction with Lorne Road) is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1986. Post box.
Pillar Box 23, Alton Road (At Junction with Lorne Road)
- WRENN ID
- standing-buttress-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Post box
- OS grid reference
- SJ 303 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38431, -3.04807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a post box located at the junction of Alton Road and Lorne Road in Birkenhead, built between 1866 and 1871. It was designed by Penfold and manufactured by Cochrane of Dudley. The post box is made of cast iron and features a hexagonal shape with a moulded base, bands, and cornice. It is topped with a petal ogival cap and an acorn finial.
Local climate
Pillar Box 23, Alton Road (At Junction with Lorne 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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