Telephone Call-box on pavement outside No.13 The Watton is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 June 1990. Telephone kiosk. 1 related planning application.
Telephone Call-box on pavement outside No.13 The Watton
- WRENN ID
- lone-arch-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1990
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box on pavement outside No.13 The Watton, Powys, LD3 7EL
- OS grid reference
- SO 048 282
- Coordinates
- 51.9448, -3.38554
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a telephone call box located on the pavement outside No. 13 The Watton. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns. The front has red lettered opals, which are currently obscured by blue stickers, along with ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds and marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear of the call box is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box on pavement outside No.13 The Watton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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