Telephone Call-box at entrance to Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Telephone call-box.

Telephone Call-box at entrance to Home Farm

WRENN ID
proud-granite-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Telephone call-box
Address
Telephone Call-box at entrance to Home Farm, Abbey Cwmhir
OS grid reference
SO 054 712
Coordinates
52.33077, -3.38891
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6-type telephone call box located at the entrance to Home Farm. It is a square kiosk made of cast iron and sits on a moulded plinth. The roof is domed and features four lunettes with embossed crowns above red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door of the kiosk have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at entrance to Home Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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