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
Country: England
Date first listed: 6 July 1977
Type: Pillar box
Source: Historic England listing

Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW MONTPELLIER WALK 630-1/17/583 (West side) 06/07/77 Pillar box outside Hanover House

GV II

Pillar box. 1866-79. Cast-iron. Designed by JW Penfold. Manufactured by Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. Hexagonal letter box with elaborate leaf decorated crest and lettering 'VR'. Cheltenham has 8 of the 94 surviving Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes reputed to remain in the country. There are others in Bayshill Road (qv), College Lawn (qv), Douro Road (qv), Evesham Road (qv), Lansdown Road (qv), Pittville Circus Road (qv) and St Paul's Road (qv). (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 99; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 68-9).

Listing NGR: SO9448821946

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