Post Box is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1985. Post box.
Post Box
- WRENN ID
- hollow-brick-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1985
- Type
- Post box
- Address
- Post Box, the Green (South-East Corner), Rous Lench
- OS grid reference
- SP 013 532
- Coordinates
- 52.17792, -1.98118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This post box, dating from the 1870s, features a timber frame with plastered infill set on a sandstone ashlar plinth and is topped with a tile roof. It has a gabled front with a jettied tie-beam above a painted cast iron pillar box inscribed "VR". The gable is adorned with moulded bargeboards, and the truss includes V-struts to the king-post, with a shield attached to the center of the tie-beam.
Local climate
Post Box receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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