Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 December 1989. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardens
- WRENN ID
- long-rubble-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardens, Pontcanna
- OS grid reference
- ST 170 768
- Coordinates
- 51.48478, -3.19545
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a K6 type telephone call box located on the east side of the central gardens. It is a square, red kiosk made of cast iron. The box features raised surrounds around the door and sides, with horizontal glazing that includes marginal glazing bars. The rear of the box is blank, and it has a moulded plinth. The domed roof is adorned with four lunettes that display King George VI crowns above red lettered opals and ventilation slits.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardens 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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