Pair of Telephone Call-boxes on the pavement outside the Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 June 1990. Telephone call-box.

Pair of Telephone Call-boxes on the pavement outside the Head Post Office

WRENN ID
dusted-flue-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 June 1990
Type
Telephone call-box
Address
Pair of Telephone Call-boxes on the pavement outside the Head Post Office, Laleston
OS grid reference
SS 907 798
Coordinates
51.50698, -3.5761
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This listing describes a pair of telephone call boxes located on the pavement outside the Head Post Office. Each call box features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns above opal glass panels, although modern panels have been installed except on the two inner sides, where the original red lettering is still visible. The call boxes also have raised surrounds on the sides and doors, which include marginal glazing bars in the horizontal glazing.

Local climate

Pair of Telephone Call-boxes on the pavement outside the Head Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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