Post Office Pillar Box at West Corner of Danesdale 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 at West Corner of Danesdale Road

WRENN ID
ruined-pediment-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Pillar box
Address
Post Office Pillar Box at West Corner of Danesdale Road, Victoria Park Road E9
OS grid reference
TQ 362 845
Coordinates
51.54308, -0.03594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office pillar box at the west corner of Danesdale Road was built between 1866 and 1876, designed by J W Penfold. It is a hexagonal pillar box featuring 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 at West Corner of Danesdale Road 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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