Pillar Box is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Letter box.
Pillar Box
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rafter-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Letter box
- OS grid reference
- SS 753 972
- Coordinates
- 51.66008, -3.80389
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a circular cast-iron red letter box of standard design. It has a narrow cylinder shape with a fluted rim and a shallow domed cap that features part of a signing bracket. The words "POST OFFICE" are displayed on either side of the letter slot, and the door is marked with the VR monogram. This letter box was made by A Handyside and Co Ltd of Derby and London.
Local climate
Pillar Box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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