Wall Box at Ngr St 2597 2039 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Wall box.
Wall Box at Ngr St 2597 2039
- WRENN ID
- upper-sentry-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Wall box
- Address
- Wall Box at Ngr St 2597 2039, Orchard Portman
- OS grid reference
- ST 259 203
- Coordinates
- 50.97814, -3.05588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a wall box built between 1859 and 1861 by Smith and Hakes of Birmingham for the Post Office. Made of cast iron, it is a rare example, with only 48 known to still exist in the country, according to The Letterbox Study Group.
Local climate
Wall Box at Ngr St 2597 2039 receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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