Telephone Call-box on up platform is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Telephone call-box. 2 related planning applications.

Telephone Call-box on up platform

WRENN ID
proud-chimney-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 August 1988
Type
Telephone call-box
Address
Telephone Call-box on up platform, Bangor, LL57 1LZ
OS grid reference
SH 575 716
Coordinates
53.22254, -4.13472
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone call box located on the up platform. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds, and there are marginal glazing bars on the horizontal glazing.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box on up platform sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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