Pillar Box on North Side of Junction with Parabola Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. Public utility.

Pillar Box on North Side of Junction with Parabola Road

WRENN ID
solitary-balcony-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1977
Type
Public utility
Address
Pillar Box on North Side of Junction with Parabola Road, Bayshill Road
OS grid reference
SO 944 221
Coordinates
51.89794, -2.08172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pillar box located on the north side of the junction with Parabola Road in Cheltenham. It was built between 1866 and 1879 and designed by J.W. Penfold, with manufacturing by the Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. The pillar box is hexagonal and features an elaborate leaf-decorated crest along with 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 in College Lawn, Douro Road, Evesham Road, Lansdown Road, Montpellier Walk, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul's Road.

Local climate

Pillar Box on North Side of Junction with Parabola Road 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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