Letter Box is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2000. Post box.
Letter Box
- WRENN ID
- plain-moulding-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2000
- Type
- Post box
- Address
- Letter Box, Stow Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 309 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58345, -2.99788
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a cylindrical cast-iron post box of standard design. It features a fluted rim on a shallow domed cap. The door displays a crown and the monogram "GR". There is a foundry inscription on the plinth from the Carron Company.
Local climate
Letter Box receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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