Letter Box outside the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 2002. Letter box.

Letter Box outside the Post Office

WRENN ID
fallen-sentry-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 January 2002
Type
Letter box
Address
Letter Box outside the Post Office, 31 High Street, Caerleon, NP18 1AE
OS grid reference
ST 340 905
Coordinates
51.60951, -2.9538
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a cast iron letter box located outside the Post Office. It was manufactured by McDowell, Stevens and Co. of London and Falkirk, as inscribed on the base. The letter box remains unaltered except for the addition of a stamp vending machine fixed to its right-hand side.

Local climate

Letter Box outside the Post Office 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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