Pillar Box at East End of Double Street, at Junction with Castle Street 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 East End of Double Street, at Junction with Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- woven-finial-dawn
- 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 East End of Double Street, at Junction with Castle Street, Framlingham, IP13 9BN
- OS grid reference
- TM 287 635
- Coordinates
- 52.22243, 1.34695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pillar box at the east end of Double Street, located at the junction with Castle Street in Framlingham, is a Victorian letter box dating from 1856 to 1857. It is one of a pair of early Mainland type letter boxes made by Andrew Hendy & Co. of Derby. The structure is made of cast iron and features a square plinth with a moulded base, a panelled octagonal shaft, and a moulded shallow conical cap. It has a vertical posting aperture adorned with the Royal crown above, flanked by the initials VR.
Local climate
Pillar Box at East End of Double Street, at Junction with Castle Street 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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