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

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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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