Telephone Call-box on island site, beside clock tower is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 April 1990. Telephone call-box.

Telephone Call-box on island site, beside clock tower

WRENN ID
quartered-hinge-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 April 1990
Type
Telephone call-box
Address
Telephone Call-box on island site, beside clock tower, Knighton
OS grid reference
SO 285 723
Coordinates
52.34437, -3.04984
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone call box located on an island site beside a clock tower. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank, and it has a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box on island site, beside clock tower receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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