Pillar Box Outside former Coal Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Pillar box. 1 related planning application.

Pillar Box Outside former Coal Exchange

WRENN ID
roaming-moat-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 August 1992
Type
Pillar box
Address
Pillar Box Outside former Coal Exchange, Butetown
OS grid reference
ST 189 746
Coordinates
51.4653, -3.16779
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a cylindrical cast iron pillar box of standard design located outside the former Coal Exchange. It features a fluted rim on its shallow domed cap and has a door marked with the monogram "E II R". This particular pillar box was manufactured by the Carron Company in Stirlingshire.

Local climate

Pillar Box Outside former Coal Exchange sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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