Letter Box at King's College Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. A C19 Letter box.
Letter Box at King's College Gate
- WRENN ID
- buried-kitchen-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Letter box
- Address
- Letter Box at King's College Gate, King's Parade
- OS grid reference
- TL 447 583
- Coordinates
- 52.20438, 0.11736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The letter box at King's College gate, located on the west side of King's Parade, dates from the mid-19th century. It is a cast iron 'hexagonal Penfold' box featuring a leaf-shaped head and bears the initials VR.
Local climate
Letter Box at King's College Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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