Pillar Box at Junction Between Mount Pleasant and College Road is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1974. Pillar box.
Pillar Box at Junction Between Mount Pleasant and College Road
- WRENN ID
- errant-facade-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1974
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box at Junction Between Mount Pleasant and College Road, Framlingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 280 635
- Coordinates
- 52.22332, 1.33769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pillar box located at the junction of Mount Pleasant and College Road in Framlingham is a Grade II listed structure. It is one of a pair of Victorian letter boxes, designed in the early Mainland style by Andrew Hendy & Co. of Derby, dating from 1856 to 1857. Made of cast iron, it features a square plinth and a moulded base, leading to a panelled octagonal shaft topped with a moulded shallow conical cap. The vertical posting aperture is adorned with a Royal crown above, flanked by the initials V.R.
Local climate
Pillar Box at Junction Between Mount Pleasant and College Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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