Letter Box, Kirbuster, South Walls, Hoy is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 2002. Letter box.
Letter Box, Kirbuster, South Walls, Hoy
- WRENN ID
- young-postern-rush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Letter box
- OS grid reference
- ND 330 909
- Coordinates
- 58.801, -3.15988
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The letter box at Kirbuster, South Walls, Hoy, dates from the early 20th century. It is a standard cast-iron lamp letter box built into a rubble wall. The letter box features a semi-circular head with the words 'LETTERS ONLY' above the opening. Below the mouth, there is a 'GR' insignia on the door.
Local climate
Letter Box, Kirbuster, South Walls, Hoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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