RNLI Collection Box is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 2014. Collection box.
RNLI Collection Box
- WRENN ID
- watchful-railing-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 2014
- Type
- Collection box
- Address
- RNLI Collection Box, Porthgwarra, St. Levan, Penzance, TR19 6JR
- OS grid reference
- SW 371 217
- Coordinates
- 50.03763, -5.67251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The RNLI collection box is a square cast iron structure, possibly dating from the inter-war period, and stands approximately 1 meter tall. It features a mounded plinth at the base and has decorative round-headed panels on each side. The south-facing side includes a door with a keyhole for accessing the contents. The box has angled corners and is topped with a moulded octagonal cap that has a central dome on an octagonal plinth. It is painted in the colours of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and is positioned on a granite slab next to a rubble stone wall.
Local climate
RNLI Collection Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- No related consent applications matched
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