Telephone Call Box adjoining E Side Of The Former Coal Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 December 1989. Telephone call box.

Telephone Call Box adjoining E Side Of The Former Coal Exchange

WRENN ID
fading-cobble-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 December 1989
Type
Telephone call box
OS grid reference
ST 189 747
Coordinates
51.46557, -3.16773
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a telephone call box located next to the east side of the former Coal Exchange. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of King George VI, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The door has raised surrounds with marginal bars framing the horizontal perspex glazing. The rear of the box is blank and it stands on a moulded plinth.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box adjoining E Side Of The Former Coal Exchange sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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