Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pillar Box near Station House
Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neyland, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 May 1975.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1975
- Locality
- Neyland
- Town
- Milford Haven
- Community
- Neyland
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70593, -4.94570
- Cadw reference
- 13011
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of the junction of Picton Road, High Street and Station Road just E of Station House
History
An example of the pillar box designed by the architect John Wornham Penfold in 1865, the design said to be based on the 'Tower of the Winds', an Athenian 1st century water clock. These boxes were produced 1866 to 1879 by Cochrane and Company of Dudley and when introduced the standard colour was green and remained so until 1874. This box was originally sited on the railway station.
Exterior
Pillar box, hexagonal cast-iron with ogee domed cap decorated with acanthus leaves and oval finial. Royal Coat of arms above opening for letters. Initials V R applied to door of pillar-box.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a rare survival of a Penfold pillar box.
Nearby in the register
- Station HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Lime kiln at Church LakeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Two Bollards on N Side of QuayGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.