Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 May 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box

WRENN ID
night-wall-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 May 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-box, Salem, Caernarfon, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 544 567
Coordinates
53.08786, -4.17438
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone kiosk made of red-painted cast iron. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns, along with black-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds, and there are margin lights with horizontal glazing bars. The kiosk also has a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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