Pillar Box at Junction with Western Road is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. Pillar box.
Pillar Box at Junction with Western Road
- WRENN ID
- twisted-doorway-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1988
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box at Junction with Western Road, Montpelier Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 044
- Coordinates
- 50.82481, -0.15293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pillar box located at the junction with Western Road in Brighton, dating from 1859. It was made by Cochrane and Company of Dudley. The pillar box is constructed from cast iron and features a cylindrical shape on a moulded base. It has two ring mouldings at the level of the horizontal posting aperture and a coved cornice. The top is shallow stepped and domed, decorated with a pattern of segments and a central circle. This pillar box is very rare, representing the large First National standard type, and is believed to be the only one of its kind still in postal service. Notably, it does not have a Royal cipher or any legend linking it to the post office.
Local climate
Pillar Box at Junction with Western Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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