Pillar Box Outside Hanover House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. Pillar box.

Pillar Box Outside Hanover House

WRENN ID
grim-eave-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1977
Type
Pillar box
Address
Pillar Box Outside Hanover House, Montpellier Walk, GL50 1SD
OS grid reference
SO 944 219
Coordinates
51.89604, -2.0815
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pillar box located outside Hanover House is a cast-iron structure dating from 1866 to 1879. It was designed by J.W. Penfold and manufactured by the Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. This hexagonal letter box features an elaborate leaf-decorated crest and the lettering 'VR'. Cheltenham is home to eight of the 94 surviving Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes believed to still exist in the country. Other examples can be found on Bayshill Road, College Lawn, Douro Road, Evesham Road, Lansdown Road, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul's Road.

Local climate

Pillar Box Outside Hanover House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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