Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. Pillar box.
Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place
- WRENN ID
- pitched-paling-cedar
- 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 at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place, Douro Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 939 219
- Coordinates
- 51.89634, -2.08903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillar box located at the north side of the junction in Malvern Place, Cheltenham. This pillar box was built between 1866 and 1879 and designed by JW Penfold. It was manufactured by the Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. The structure is made of cast iron and features a hexagonal shape with elaborate leaf decoration, as well as the lettering "VR." Cheltenham is notable for having eight of the 64 remaining Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes in the country. Other examples of this type can be found in Bayshill Road, College Lawn, Evesham Road, Lansdown Road, Montpellier Walk, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul's Road.
Local climate
Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place 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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