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

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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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