Pillar Box outside the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Manor house, farm buildings.
Pillar Box outside the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- eastward-crypt-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1990
- Type
- Manor house, farm buildings
- Address
- Pillar Box outside the Post Office, Penarth
- OS grid reference
- ST 185 718
- Coordinates
- 51.43936, -3.17319
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a circular cast-iron red letter box, designed in a standard style. It features a fluted rim on a shallow domed cap and has the 'E II R' monogram on the door. It is located outside the Post Office.
Local climate
Pillar Box outside the Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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