Penfold Post Box at the National Tramway Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1987. Post box.
Penfold Post Box at the National Tramway Museum
- WRENN ID
- last-stair-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1987
- Type
- Post box
- Address
- Penfold Post Box at the National Tramway Museum, Matlock Road, Crich, DE4 5DP
- OS grid reference
- SK 345 548
- Coordinates
- 53.08999, -1.48581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Penfold post box at the National Tramway Museum is a Grade II listed structure designed by John Wornham Penfold and manufactured by Cochrane and Co. in Dudley, Birmingham, between 1872 and 1879. It is made of cast iron and has a hexagonal shape with a moulded plinth. The main front features an inset plate that states the times of collections, with a posting slot above it. The top of the box is moulded, slightly domed, and decorated with leaf motifs. Originally located in Wellington Street, Bradford, East Manchester, this post box was moved to its current location in 1969.
Local climate
Penfold Post Box at the National Tramway Museum receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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