Pillar Box Beside Number 48 at Junction with Parkhurst Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1980. Pillar box.
Pillar Box Beside Number 48 at Junction with Parkhurst Road
- WRENN ID
- plain-chapel-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Old Bexley and Sidcup MP: Mr Louie French (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1980
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box Beside Number 48 at Junction with Parkhurst Road, Parkhill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 490 737
- Coordinates
- 51.44282, 0.14356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a "Penfold" type pillar box located beside number 48 at the junction with Parkhurst Road in Bexley. It dates from the period between 1872 and 1879 and was designed by architect J W Penfold, with casting done by Cochrane, Grove and Company. The pillar box is hexagonal and stands on a plinth with a cyma roll. It features the royal cipher VR and the royal arms above the posting aperture. The cap is adorned with a band of ball decoration and has a foliated top.
Local climate
Pillar Box Beside Number 48 at Junction with Parkhurst Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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