PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE

PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE, EVESHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333230
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1977
List Entry Name:: PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE
Statutory Address:: PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE, EVESHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333230
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1977
List Entry Name:: PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE
Statutory Address 1:: PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE, EVESHAM ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PILLAR BOX TO SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH CLEEVELANDS DRIVE, EVESHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 95292 23833

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO92SE EVESHAM ROAD 630-1/2/315 (West side) 06/07/77 Pillar box to south of junction with Cleevelands Drive

GV II

Pillar box. 1866-79. Designed by JW Penfold. Manufactured by Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. Cast-iron. Hexagonal letter box with elaborate leaf decorated cresting and lettering 'VR'. Cheltenham has 8 of the 64 Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes reputed to remain in the country. Other examples of the type remain in Bayshill Road (qv), College Lawn (qv), Duoro Road (qv), Lansdown Road (qv), Montpellier Walk (qv), Pittville Circus Road (qv) and St Paul's Road. Forms a good group with K6 Telephone Box to south of junction with Cleevelands Drive (qv). (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 99; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 68-9).

Listing NGR: SO9529223833

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Legacy System number:: 474611
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 68-9
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 99

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.