Post Office Pillar Box on North Corner of Walford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Pillar box.

Post Office Pillar Box on North Corner of Walford Road

WRENN ID
frozen-parapet-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Pillar box
Address
Post Office Pillar Box on North Corner of Walford Road, Nevill Road N16
OS grid reference
TQ 332 858
Coordinates
51.55618, -0.07891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office pillar box, located on the north corner of Walford Road, was designed by J W Penfold and built between 1866 and 1876. It features a hexagonal shape with a high, roll-moulded plinth, a ball cornice, and a raised ogee top adorned with a leaf pattern and topped with a pine-cone finial.

Local climate

Post Office Pillar Box on North Corner of Walford Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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