Automobile Association Telephone Call Box is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 2005. Call box. 3 related planning applications.
Automobile Association Telephone Call Box
- WRENN ID
- leaning-jade-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 March 2005
- Type
- Call box
- Address
- Automobile Association Telephone Call Box, Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth, Pontarfynach
- OS grid reference
- SN 741 770
- Coordinates
- 52.3768, -3.85074
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is an Automobile Association telephone call box, likely dating to the mid-20th century. It is constructed of painted sheet metal with painted plastic badges. The box has a square plan with tapered, black-painted sheet metal sides, and a flush metal door to the front, displaying a winged AA badge. A shelf cornice sits above the door, beneath a cross-gabled roof featuring AA badges in each of the three gables, flanked by plaques lettered 'Devil's' and 'Bridge'. The roof has a slight overhang, and a small ventilator is positioned at the crossing point. The call box is set on half-round paving, with plaques of cement on the rear, against a rubble retaining wall. These plaques are lettered 'Devil's' and 'Bridge', each with an arched plaque above bearing a later 20th-century AA badge.
Local climate
Automobile Association Telephone Call Box 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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