Post Box outside No.9 The Watton is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 2005. Post box.

Post Box outside No.9 The Watton

WRENN ID
unlit-gargoyle-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 November 2005
Type
Post box
Address
Post Box outside No.9 The Watton, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 048 282
Coordinates
51.94464, -3.38514
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The post box located outside No. 9 The Watton is a cast iron pillar box designed to standard specifications. It features a domical cap with fluting and a plinth. The door displays the monogram of Queen Victoria. The maker's stamp is partly obscured but appears to be from Handiside of Derby.

Local climate

Post Box outside No.9 The Watton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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