Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms inn is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 June 2004. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms inn
- WRENN ID
- grim-merlon-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 June 2004
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms inn, Llandovery, SA20 0DD
- OS grid reference
- SN 770 343
- Coordinates
- 51.99417, -3.79227
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a telephone kiosk located by the west wall of the King's Arms inn. It is made of painted cast iron and features a shallow domed roof in the Soaneian style, with lunettes that have embossed George VI crowns above glazed panels that are marked 'Telephone'. The sides of the kiosk are glazed, and it has a timber door with a matching glazed panel, all of which include marginal glazing bars on the long horizontal panes.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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