Telephone Call-box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 November 1992. Telephone box.

Telephone Call-box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street

WRENN ID
long-quoin-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 November 1992
Type
Telephone box
Address
Telephone Call-box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street, Crickhowell, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 218 183
Coordinates
51.85839, -3.13641
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The telephone call box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street is a Grade II listed structure. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds, and the horizontal glazing includes marginal bars. The rear of the call box is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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