Pillar Box Outside Hammond Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. Pillar box. 4 related planning applications.
Pillar Box Outside Hammond Court
- WRENN ID
- rough-stair-barley
- 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 Hammond Court, College Lawn
- OS grid reference
- SO 951 213
- Coordinates
- 51.89061, -2.0712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cast-iron pillar box dating from 1866 to 1877. Designed by JW Penfold and made by the Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley, it stands outside Hammond Court on College Lawn, Cheltenham. The pillar box is of a distinctive hexagonal “Penfold” type, featuring an elaborate crest decorated with leaves and the inscription “VR”. Cheltenham retains a notable group of these Victorian pillar boxes, with eight of the approximately 94 surviving examples found in the town, located on Bayshill Road, Duoro Road, Evesham Road, Lansdown Road, Montpellier Walk, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul’s Road.
Local climate
Pillar Box Outside Hammond Court 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 40 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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