Telephone Call-box adjoining Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 December 1989. Kiosk.

Telephone Call-box adjoining Old Post Office

WRENN ID
crumbling-iron-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 December 1989
Type
Kiosk
OS grid reference
ST 120 772
Coordinates
51.48719, -3.26786
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6 type telephone call-box, built in a square shape and made of cast iron. It features raised surrounds around the door and sides, with horizontal 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 above red lettered opals and ventilation slits.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box adjoining Old Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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