Telephone Call-box by Capel Gwynfryn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 2003. Telephone kiosk. 1 related planning application.
Telephone Call-box by Capel Gwynfryn
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lancet-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 October 2003
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box by Capel Gwynfryn, Pentre Gwynfryn, Llanbedr, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 597 272
- Coordinates
- 52.82407, -4.08317
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a red painted cast-iron telephone kiosk designed by Capel Gwynfryn. It features a shallow domed roof and has embossed George VI crowns in lunette on each side. Below the crowns, there are semi-transparent panels with red lettering and ventilation slits. The sides of the kiosk have raised surrounds with horizontal glass panels that include margin lights, and the door has similar panels. The kiosk stands on a raised plinth and has a blank rear.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box by Capel Gwynfryn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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