Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 August 1990. House.
Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-spindle-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria House, Talley
- OS grid reference
- SN 635 326
- Coordinates
- 51.97584, -3.98804
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The telephone call box, located at a road junction and set against the wall of Pretoria House, features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns above red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box at road junction set against wall of Pretoria House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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