Aa Box No 456 is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1989. Telephone box.
Aa Box No 456
- WRENN ID
- pitched-kitchen-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1989
- Type
- Telephone box
- Address
- Aa Box No 456, A3052, Aylesbeare
- OS grid reference
- SY 048 903
- Coordinates
- 50.70521, -3.34877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
AA Box No 456 is a telephone box dating from around 1930. It features painted softwood siding and a zinc roof. The box is square in shape, with tongued-and-grooved vertical painted boarding on three sides and a flush door at the front, topped by a weathering fillet. Each face has a low gable, and the cross-gabled roof is finished with a small ventilating finial. The entire structure is set on a low raised concrete base, surrounded by a curbed area on three sides, with the fourth side adjacent to the pavement edge. Three faces display a yellow plastic AA sign, while the west side has a cast iron plate with raised lettering that reads "AA Box No 456." The east side previously had a similar plate. The box is located near the crossing with the B3180 and approximately 90 meters east of the Half Way Inn. This building was previously listed in the parish of Woodbury.
Local climate
Aa Box No 456 receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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