Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 November 1991. Telephone box.
Telephone Call-box
- WRENN ID
- under-jade-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1991
- Type
- Telephone box
- Address
- Telephone Call-box, Gwaelod-Y-Garth, Pentyrch
- OS grid reference
- ST 115 840
- Coordinates
- 51.54796, -3.27688
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a K6 telephone box made of cast iron, featuring a domed roof topped with a crown. It has four lunettes with red-lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds, and the horizontal glazing is framed with margin bars. The rear is blank and includes a casting inscription, along with a moulded plinth. The telephone equipment inside has been renewed.
Local climate
Telephone Call-box 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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