Telephone Call-box in front of the Pavilion and Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 November 1990. House.

Telephone Call-box in front of the Pavilion and Pier

WRENN ID
ragged-chapel-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 November 1990
Type
House
Address
Telephone Call-box in front of the Pavilion and Pier, Penarth
OS grid reference
ST 189 713
Coordinates
51.43544, -3.16742
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: sale history · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a telephone call box located in front of the Pavilion and Pier. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of King George VI, set over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The box has raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing and a wooden door. The rear is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box in front of the Pavilion and Pier sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Inn at the Deep End (former Penarth Baths & Supervisor's Office) Grade II 48 m
  2. N.Lodge to Windsor Gardens (Piermaster's Lodge) Grade II 54 m
  3. Penarth Pier (includingI Pavilion & Shops) Grade II 93 m
  4. Cenotaph Grade II 232 m
  5. Penarth Yacht Club House Grade II 303 m
  6. Coastguard Cottage Grade II 378 m
  7. 5 Tower Hill Avenue Grade II 384 m
  8. 4 Tower Hill Avenue Grade II 389 m
  9. 3 Tower Hill Avenue Grade II 392 m
  10. 2 Tower Hill Avenue Grade II 396 m