Pillar Box at Junction with South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Postbox.

Pillar Box at Junction with South Street

WRENN ID

graven-sill-cream

Grade

II

Local Planning Authority

Dorset

Constituency

West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)

Country

England

Date first listed

8 May 1975

Type

Postbox

Address

Pillar Box at Junction with South Street, South Walks Road, Dorchester

OS grid reference

SY 692 903

Coordinates

50.712, -2.43732

Source

Historic England listing

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Description

Local climate

Pillar Box at Junction with South Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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