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
inner-gargoyle-bistre
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 755 974
Coordinates
51.66158, -3.801
Source
Cadw listing

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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 a sign bracket. The door displays the V R monogram, and the words "POST OFFICE" are found on either side of the letter slot. The 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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