Letter Box (On Corner with Old Brompton Road) is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1984. Letter box.

Letter Box (On Corner with Old Brompton Road)

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1984
Type
Letter box
Address
Letter Box (On Corner with Old Brompton Road), Cranley Place Sw7
OS grid reference
TQ 266 786
Coordinates
51.49234, -0.17752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This letter box, located at the corner of Cranley Place and Old Brompton Road, dates from the mid-19th century. It is made of stucco and is designed as a square pier with a pyramidal top. It features a horizontal aperture and has a VR emblem above it.

Local climate

Letter Box (On Corner with Old Brompton Road) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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