Telephone Call-box at Hafod is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1998. Telephone call box.

Telephone Call-box at Hafod

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1998
Type
Telephone call box
Address
Telephone Call-box at Hafod, Pentrefoelas
OS grid reference
SH 892 532
Coordinates
53.06468, -3.65401
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6 pattern standard cast iron public telephone call box located at Hafod. It features a domed roof and four lunettes that contain embossed crowns above red lettered opals and ventilation slits. This design is a derivative of the original 1936 design by Giles Gilbert Scott. The call box was made by Carron Company in Scotland and was erected for the General Post Office after 1936. The rear is blank and includes Mark 2 asymmetrical cable entry slots. The internal equipment has been modernised.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at Hafod sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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