Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 1992. Stable.

Telephone Call-box

WRENN ID
distant-balcony-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 December 1992
Type
Stable
Address
Telephone Call-box, Llansteffan, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 353 105
Coordinates
51.76919, -4.38775
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a cast iron telephone call-box with a square plan. It features raised surrounds on the sides and door, and the door and sides have marginal glazing bars with glazed horizontal panels, while the rear is blank. The call-box has a moulded plinth and a shallow domed roof. The roof includes four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of King George VI, positioned above three illuminated lettered panels and ventilation slits.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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