Telephone Call-box adjacent to W gable end of Hand Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 May 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box adjacent to W gable end of Hand Inn

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 May 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
SJ 156 328
Coordinates
52.88617, -3.2544
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6-type telephone call box located next to the west gable end of the Hand Inn. It is a square structure made of cast iron and features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns above red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The foundry plate is not visible, and the rear of the kiosk is blank with a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box adjacent to W gable end of Hand Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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