Pillar Box on Pavement to W of Music Department Building is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Postal box.
Pillar Box on Pavement to W of Music Department Building
- WRENN ID
- sharp-rubblework-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Postal box
- Address
- Pillar Box on Pavement to W of Music Department Building, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 579 724
- Coordinates
- 53.22964, -4.12996
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a circular cast-iron red letter box that follows a standard design. It features a fluted rim on the shallow dome cap and has a crowned VR monogram on the door. The letter box was made by Handyside and Co Ltd of Derby and London.
Local climate
Pillar Box on Pavement to W of Music Department Building sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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