Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 December 2004. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- eternal-tracery-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 December 2004
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office, Pontrhydygroes, Ystrad Meurig, Ysbyty Ystwyth
- OS grid reference
- SN 739 723
- Coordinates
- 52.33504, -3.85184
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a red-painted cast-iron telephone kiosk located outside The Old Post Office. It features a shallow-domed top and a George VI crown in the lunettes above the glazed panels that are lettered "Telephone." The door and sides have glazing divided into eight bands, each with marginal glazing bars. The rear is blank and displays a maker's plaque from the Carron Company in Stirlingshire.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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