Telephone Call-box outside nos. 5 & 5a Royal Buildings 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 outside nos. 5 & 5a Royal Buildings
- WRENN ID
- ragged-roof-indigo
- 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 outside nos. 5 & 5a Royal Buildings, Penarth
- OS grid reference
- ST 183 714
- Coordinates
- 51.43586, -3.17537
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a telephone call box located outside numbers 5 and 5a Royal Buildings. 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 outside nos. 5 & 5a Royal Buildings 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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- 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
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