Post Office Pillar Box at East Corner of King's Crescent 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 at East Corner of King's Crescent

WRENN ID
dim-spandrel-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Tottenham MP: Mr David Lammy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Pillar box
Address
Post Office Pillar Box at East Corner of King's Crescent, Queen's Drive N4
OS grid reference
TQ 321 865
Coordinates
51.56191, -0.09498
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office pillar box at the east corner of King's Crescent is a hexagonal "Penfold" type, dating from around 1860. It features a roll-moulded plinth, a ball cornice, a raised ogee top, and a pinecone finial.

Local climate

Post Office Pillar Box at East Corner of King's Crescent 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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