Pillar Box 31, Ashville Road (Opposite Junction with Cavendish 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 31, Ashville Road (Opposite Junction with Cavendish Road)

WRENN ID
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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 307 891
Coordinates
53.39494, -3.04269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a post box located on Ashville Road in Birkenhead, opposite the junction with Cavendish Road. It was built between 1866 and 1871 and was designed by Penfold, with manufacturing 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 has a petal ogival cap topped with an acorn finial.

Local climate

Pillar Box 31, Ashville Road (Opposite Junction with Cavendish 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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