Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 November 1992. House. 1 related planning application.
Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- calm-merlon-lark
- 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
- House
- Address
- Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post Office, Powys, LD3 7DJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94687, -3.3909
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This listing describes a pair of telephone call boxes located outside the former yard of the Old Post Office. Each call box 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 with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear of the boxes is blank, and they sit on a moulded plinth. A foundry plate on the boxes is inscribed with "Carron Company, Stirlingshire".
Local climate
Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post Office 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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