Telephone Call-box at Ynysypandy is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 June 2025. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call-box at Ynysypandy
- WRENN ID
- vast-portal-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 June 2025
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box at Ynysypandy, Cwm Ystradllyn, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 549 433
- Coordinates
- 52.96745, -4.16151
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The telephone call box at Ynysypandy is a red-painted cast-iron kiosk dating from the early 20th century. It features two glazed sides, a blank rear, and a wooden door with an inserted glazed iron panel. The door is located on the west face, opposite the back panel, and is hinged on the left, classified as door type A according to Diagram EC1324 of Specification D1140Q. The kiosk has a square plan with a slightly raised plinth and horizontal glazing on each side, divided by marginal bars.
At the top, there are four opalescent panels beneath a shallow Soaneian domed roof, which includes lunettes, each adorned with an embossed Tudor crown. The opalescent panels display the word ‘TELEPHONE’ in monolingual lettering. The Tudor crowns are flat-bottomed and oval-less, a style that was exclusively used by Macfarlane & Co on the K6 Mark 2. The rear panel is of the K6 Mark 2 type, featuring asymmetrical cable run-in holes at the base on either side of the manufacturer's plate, which reads:
MACFARLANE & Co Ltd
SARACEN FOUNDRY
GLASGOW
Inside, the call box has been modernized with updated receiver equipment and a shelf for a telephone directory, along with a half-cylinder power cover from the 1970s.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box at Ynysypandy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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