Pillar Box (On Green Opposite Mount Pleasant) is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1976. Pillar box.
Pillar Box (On Green Opposite Mount Pleasant)
- WRENN ID
- odd-balcony-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1976
- Type
- Pillar box
- OS grid reference
- SZ 183 920
- Coordinates
- 50.72793, -1.74198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pillar box located on the green opposite Mount Pleasant in Mudeford dates from around 1856 and is an example of early Victorian design. It is made of cast iron and features a fluted column, a plinth, and a round cap, with a vertical letter box. This pillar box is part of a group that includes Seabrook Cottage, Bridge House, Sunnyholme and the adjoining cottage, Mudeford Lodge and its outbuilding, The Moorings, Mount Pleasant and its boundary wall, and The Staithe, with all but Mudeford Lodge, The Moorings, the pillar box, and The Staithe being of local interest.
Local climate
Pillar Box (On Green Opposite Mount Pleasant) receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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