Telephone Call-box on The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 March 2008. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call-box on The Square
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pavement-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 March 2008
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box on The Square, Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 155 337
- Coordinates
- 51.99588, -3.232
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a K6 type telephone call box located in The Square. It is made of cast iron and follows the standard design by Giles Gilbert Scott. The call box features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns, along with red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides have raised surrounds, and the door has marginal bars with horizontal glazing. The rear is blank and includes a foundry plate, and it stands on a moulded plinth.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box on The Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- No related consent applications matched
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