Telephone call box adjoining boundary wall of Roath Court 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 boundary wall of Roath Court
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-screen-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Kiosk
- OS grid reference
- ST 198 776
- Coordinates
- 51.4923, -3.15542
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a K6 type telephone call box, a square red kiosk made of cast iron, located next to the boundary wall of Roath Court. It stands on a moulded plinth and features a domed roof with four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of George VI, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door of the kiosk have raised surrounds with marginal bars that frame the horizontal glazing.
Local climate
Telephone call box adjoining boundary wall of Roath Court 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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