Pillar Box on Aberdeen Park by junction with Highbury Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1978. Pillar box. 4 related planning applications.
Pillar Box on Aberdeen Park by junction with Highbury Grove
- WRENN ID
- solemn-zinc-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1978
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box on Aberdeen Park by junction with Highbury Grove, London, N5 2AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 319 853
- Coordinates
- 51.55144, -0.09804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cast-iron post box dating from 1866 to 1876, designed by JW Penfold. It stands on Aberdeen Park, near its junction with Highbury Grove. The box has a hexagonal form and sits on a high plinth, featuring a ball cornice and a raised ogee top with a leaf pattern. The original finial is missing.
In 1913, the post box was damaged by members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), a group campaigning for women's suffrage. Between 1911 and 1913, suffragettes targeted post boxes across Britain with fire, corrosive liquids, ink, and incendiary devices to destroy mail. This particular box was set on fire on 30 January 1913, destroying most of its contents. The listing was updated in 2018 to mark the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Local climate
Pillar Box on Aberdeen Park by junction with Highbury Grove 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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