Telephone Call-box at entrance to Argoed Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. Kiosk.

Telephone Call-box at entrance to Argoed Mill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 February 2005
Type
Kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-box at entrance to Argoed Mill, Doldowlod, Nantmel
OS grid reference
SN 995 628
Coordinates
52.25456, -3.47333
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6-type telephone call box located at the entrance to Argoed Mill. It is a square structure made of cast iron, standing on a moulded plinth. The call box features a domed roof with four lunettes that have embossed crowns above red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door are designed with raised surrounds that include marginal bars for the horizontal glazing.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at entrance to Argoed Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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