Pillar Box on corner with Erw Wen is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 August 1988. Pillar box.
Pillar Box on corner with Erw Wen
- WRENN ID
- graven-iron-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1988
- Type
- Pillar box
- Address
- Pillar Box on corner with Erw Wen, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 231 079
- Coordinates
- 52.66342, -3.13701
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a very rare example of a cast-iron pillar box from 1936, featuring the Edward VIII royal insignia. The box has a circular red-painted stem topped with a domed cap and a fluted rim. It includes a weather projection over a curved door, with raised surrounds around the letter opening and collection plate. The crowned monogram is displayed with thick interlaced letters above the POST OFFICE lettering. The base is moulded and painted black. The crowned monogram is of exceptional historic importance, as King Edward VIII abdicated before his coronation.
Local climate
Pillar Box on corner with Erw Wen receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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