Pillar Box at Junction with Queens Road 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 Junction with Queens Road
- WRENN ID
- noble-entrance-fog
- 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 Junction with Queens Road, Lansdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 938 216
- Coordinates
- 51.89365, -2.09071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillar box located at the junction with Queen's Road, built between 1866 and 1879. It was designed by J.W. Penfold and cast by Cochrane Grove and Company of Dudley. The pillar box is hexagonal and features an elaborate leaf-decorated crest along with the lettering 'VR'. Cheltenham is home to 8 of the 64 Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes that are believed to still exist in the country. Other examples can be found in Bayshill Road, College Lawn, Douro Road, Evesham Road, Montpellier Walk, Pittville Circus Road, and St Paul's Road.
Local climate
Pillar Box at Junction with Queens 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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