Pillar Box at Junction of Orchard Road and Priory Road is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1979. Pillar box.
Pillar Box at Junction of Orchard Road and Priory Road
- WRENN ID
- winter-passage-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1979
- Type
- Pillar box
- OS grid reference
- SO 777 455
- Coordinates
- 52.1075, -2.32661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pillar box at the junction of Orchard Road and Priory Road dates from around 1857. It features a fluted column that is currently painted red and is inscribed with "Post Office" and "V.R." Similar examples can be found in St Andrew's Road and Worcester Road.
Local climate
Pillar Box at Junction of Orchard Road and Priory Road receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Pillar Box at Junction of the St Andrew's Road and Peachfield Road
- 2 Pillar Box in Front of the Seaford Court Preparatory School
- 3 Pillar Box at Junction Between Mount Pleasant and College Road
- 4 Pillar Box at the Junction of Norfolk Road and St John's Road
- 5 Pillar Box at Junction of Cavendish Avenue and Wellington Place
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings