Former Royal Naval Hospital Octagonal Posting Box Immediately South of Pay Office is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1974. Post box.
Former Royal Naval Hospital Octagonal Posting Box Immediately South of Pay Office
- WRENN ID
- weathered-pediment-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1974
- Type
- Post box
- Address
- Former Royal Naval Hospital Octagonal Posting Box Immediately South of Pay Office, High Street, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 465 546
- Coordinates
- 50.37191, -4.15992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Royal Naval Hospital octagonal posting box, located immediately south of the pay office, was built between 1853 and 1859 for the Royal Naval Hospital, likely cast by a contractor for the Post Office. This post box is made of painted red cast-iron and features an octagonal pillar with angle beading, a flat moulded cap, and a moulded base with a shallow plinth. It has a vertical posting slit with an external flap. This posting box is part of a significant group of military hospital buildings.
Local climate
Former Royal Naval Hospital Octagonal Posting Box Immediately South of Pay Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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