Letter Box, Desswood Place, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 December 2000. Pillar box. 2 related planning applications.

Letter Box, Desswood Place, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
open-footing-fen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 December 2000
Type
Pillar box
Address
Letter Box, Desswood Place, Aberdeen, AB25 2DH
OS grid reference
NJ 926 060
Coordinates
57.14572, -2.12349
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The letter box located at Desswood Place in Aberdeen was built in 1936. It is a columnar pillar box made of cast iron, featuring a swept frieze leading to a shallow-domed cap that has a dentilled rim. The base of the letter box is painted black, and the shaft displays the initials "EVIIIR" in raised gothic lettering, with a crown above and the words "Post Office" below.

Local climate

Letter Box, Desswood Place, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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