Letterbox at West End of the Crescent Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Letterbox. 27 related planning applications.
Letterbox at West End of the Crescent Garden
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-hearth-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Letterbox
- Address
- Letterbox at West End of the Crescent Garden, Parktown, OX2 6SN
- OS grid reference
- SP 512 077
- Coordinates
- 51.76645, -1.25919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A letterbox, dated 1865, located at the west end of the Crescent garden in Parktown. It is a distinctive 'Hexagonal Penfold' type. The letterbox forms part of a group of listed buildings which includes numbers 68 and 70 Banbury Road.
Local climate
Letterbox at West End of the Crescent Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 27 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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