Letter Box and Wall, Immediately East of the Warren is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Letter box, wall.
Letter Box and Wall, Immediately East of the Warren
- WRENN ID
- noble-pier-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Letter box, wall
- Address
- Letter Box and Wall, Immediately East of the Warren, Chapel Lane, Henstridge, South Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 714 211
- Coordinates
- 50.9891, -2.40751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a post office wall letter box located immediately east of The Warren in Henstridge, dating from 1857 to 1859. It is made of cast iron and was produced by Smith and Hawkes of Birmingham. The letter box measures 240 millimeters wide and 740 millimeters deep, featuring a three-panel front with a hinged internal flap for the letter aperture. The wall supporting the letter box is constructed of rubble, standing about 1.7 meters high and 2 meters long, and is lime rendered. This letter box is notable as the first pattern wall letter box used by the Post Office, with only six known to still be in use today, according to the Letter Box Study Group.
Local climate
Letter Box and Wall, Immediately East of the Warren receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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