Survey Data
Reg No
22901820
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1881 - 1901
Coordinates
269230, 104645
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1905. Set in boundary wall.
Appraisal
A "wall box" post box supplied by W.T. Allen and Company (fl. 1881-1955) of London representing an interesting example of mass-produced cast-iron work making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a sylvan street scene: meanwhile, only a feint outline survives of the "chiselled off" Queen Victoria (1814-1901; r. 1837-1901) royal cipher ("VR [Victoria Regina]").