Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Call box.
Telephone Call-box
- WRENN ID
- sheer-tallow-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1991
- Type
- Call box
- Address
- Telephone Call-box, Builth
- OS grid reference
- SO 043 511
- Coordinates
- 52.15002, -3.40004
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a telephone call box featuring a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of Queen Elizabeth II over opals, along with ventilation slits. It has wooden door stiles and raised surrounds with marginal bars to the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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