Telephone Call-box opposite Mount Pleasant Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 November 1992. Telephone box.

Telephone Call-box opposite Mount Pleasant Farm

WRENN ID
buried-pier-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 November 1992
Type
Telephone box
Address
Telephone Call-box opposite Mount Pleasant Farm, Llangan, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 957 775
Coordinates
51.4872, -3.50225
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6 type telephone call-box located opposite Mount Pleasant Farm. It is a square, red kiosk made of cast iron. The door and sides have raised surrounds with horizontal glazing bars. The back of the kiosk is blank, and it features a moulded plinth. The roof is domed and has four lunettes adorned with King George VI crowns, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box opposite Mount Pleasant Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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