Vr Letter Box, Dean Path, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2004. Letter box.

Vr Letter Box, Dean Path, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dreaming-garret-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2004
Type
Letter box
OS grid reference
NT 240 739
Coordinates
55.95263, -3.21842
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a wall-mounted letter box from the later 19th century, made by the Smith and Hawkes foundry in Birmingham. It is set into the rubble wall of 29 Dean Path, which has a separate listing. The letter box is made of cast iron and painted in Post Office red. It features a standard rectangular design with a flap at the top, embossed with a crown and the initials VR above. Below this, there is a raised fielded panel that includes an integrated handle and keyhole.

Local climate

Vr Letter Box, Dean Path, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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