Telephone Call-box at road junction in centre of Gileston village is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1990. Mill, commercial. 2 related planning applications.

Telephone Call-box at road junction in centre of Gileston village

WRENN ID
grim-moulding-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1990
Type
Mill, commercial
Address
Telephone Call-box at road junction in centre of Gileston village, Barry, St. Athan, CF62 4HX
OS grid reference
ST 018 670
Coordinates
51.3937, -3.41157
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6 type telephone call-box located at a road junction in the center of Gileston village. It is a square, red kiosk made of cast iron. The door and sides have raised surrounds and feature horizontal glazing with marginal glazing bars. The back of the kiosk is blank, and it has a moulded plinth. The roof is domed and includes four lunettes that display King George VI crowns over red-lettered opals and ventilation slits.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box at road junction in centre of Gileston village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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