Telephone Call-box adjoining Former Flannel Exchange (now Regent Cinema) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. Telephone call-box.

Telephone Call-box adjoining Former Flannel Exchange (now Regent Cinema)

WRENN ID
final-spandrel-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
Telephone call-box
OS grid reference
SO 107 917
Coordinates
52.51659, -3.31669
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone call-box located next to the former Flannel Exchange, which is now the Regent Cinema. It features a domed roof with four lunette windows that contain embossed crowns, red-lettered opals, and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with marginal glazing bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank and it has a moulded plinth. The telephone equipment inside has been modernised.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box adjoining Former Flannel Exchange (now Regent Cinema) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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