Telephone Call-box at lay-by adjoining churchyard in centre of village is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 November 1992. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box at lay-by adjoining churchyard in centre of village

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 November 1992
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
SO 231 148
Coordinates
51.82693, -3.11586
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone call-box located at a lay-by next to the churchyard in the center of the village. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that have embossed crowns, along with 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 has a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at lay-by adjoining churchyard in centre of village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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