Pillar Box in Rear Courtyard of the London Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Pillar box.
Pillar Box in Rear Courtyard of the London Hospital
- WRENN ID
- half-threshold-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box in Rear Courtyard of the London Hospital, Whitechapel Road E1, E1 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 347 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51794, -0.06001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pillar box located in the rear courtyard of The London Hospital dates from the period between 1866 and 1879. It is a Victorian pillar box of the "penfold" type, made of cast iron. The box is hexagonal in shape and features a cap adorned with leaf designs, which rests on ball mouldings and is topped with a central finial.
Local climate
Pillar Box in Rear Courtyard of the London Hospital 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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