Telephone Call-box at the General Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 1988. Bridge.

Telephone Call-box at the General Stores

WRENN ID
waning-pinnacle-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 July 1988
Type
Bridge
Address
Telephone Call-box at the General Stores, Mathry
OS grid reference
SM 878 320
Coordinates
51.94624, -5.08766
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The telephone call box at the General Stores is a listed building with a domed roof that features four lunettes, each containing an embossed George VI crown. It has a red-lettered illuminated panel and ventilation slits. The door and sides have raised surrounds, and the horizontal panels are made of perspex with marginal glazing bars. The structure includes a moulded plinth and has a blank rear.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at the General Stores sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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