Pillar Box to South of Junction with Cleevelands Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. Pillar box.
Pillar Box to South of Junction with Cleevelands Drive
- WRENN ID
- solemn-quartz-ochre
- 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 to South of Junction with Cleevelands Drive, Evesham Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 952 238
- Coordinates
- 51.91302, -2.06985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pillar box located to the south of the junction with Cleevelands Drive in Cheltenham, built between 1866 and 1879. It was designed by J.W. Penfold and manufactured by the Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. The pillar box is made of cast iron and has a hexagonal shape, featuring elaborate leaf-decorated cresting and the lettering 'VR'. Cheltenham is home to eight of the 64 remaining Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes in the country. Other examples can be found in Bayshill Road, College Lawn, Duoro Road, Lansdown Road, Montpellier Walk, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul's Road. This pillar box forms a good group with the K6 Telephone Box located to the south of the junction with Cleevelands Drive.
Local climate
Pillar Box to South of Junction with Cleevelands Drive 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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