Telephone Call-box on the edge of Albert Road Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 November 1990. Telephone call-box.
Telephone Call-box on the edge of Albert Road Gardens
- WRENN ID
- slow-cobalt-alder
- 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
- Telephone call-box
- Address
- Telephone Call-box on the edge of Albert Road Gardens, Penarth
- OS grid reference
- ST 186 719
- Coordinates
- 51.44109, -3.17189
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a telephone call box located on the edge of Albert Road Gardens. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of Queen Elizabeth II, along with red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The box has raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing, a blank rear, and a moulded plinth.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box on the edge of Albert Road Gardens 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.
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