Edward Viii Letter Box, Kay Park Terrace, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Pillar box.
Edward Viii Letter Box, Kay Park Terrace, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- first-wattle-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Pillar box
- OS grid reference
- NS 435 381
- Coordinates
- 55.61137, -4.48483
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Edward VIII letter box, located on Kay Park Terrace in Kilmarnock, was built in 1936. It is a columnar pillar box made of cast iron, featuring a shallow-domed cap with a swept frieze and a dentilled rim. The base is painted black, while the shaft displays the initials "EVIIIR" in raised gothic lettering, with a crown above and the words "Post Office" below.
Local climate
Edward Viii Letter Box, Kay Park Terrace, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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 0.2°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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