Aa Box at Junction with New Road is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1989. AA box. 1 related planning application.
Aa Box at Junction with New Road
- WRENN ID
- turning-merlon-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1989
- Type
- AA box
- Address
- Aa Box at Junction with New Road, A39, Porlock, Somerset, RG21 4EA
- OS grid reference
- SS 841 462
- Coordinates
- 51.20358, -3.66017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an AA box built in 1956, located at the junction with New Road in Porlock. The structure is square in shape and slightly tapers, featuring black painted wood and a metal roof. The sides are made of vertical boards and display 'AA service' signs. A ledge runs around the top, and each side rises to a gable with bargeboards, which includes a panel that encloses the AA sign. There is a door on one side that has a panel at the top with a telephone symbol.
Local climate
Aa Box at Junction with New Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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