Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 September 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box

WRENN ID
sheer-lintel-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 September 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-box, Whitford, Holywell
OS grid reference
SJ 146 781
Coordinates
53.2934, -3.28152
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a square red telephone call-box made of cast iron. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that have embossed crowns, along with red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The door and sides have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The back is blank, and it has a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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