Telephone call box at junction of Ninian Road and Alder Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 December 1989. Kiosk.

Telephone call box at junction of Ninian Road and Alder Road

WRENN ID
stranded-remnant-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 December 1989
Type
Kiosk
Address
Telephone call box at junction of Ninian Road and Alder Road, Roath Park, Roath
OS grid reference
ST 188 784
Coordinates
51.49945, -3.17116
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a K6 type telephone call box located at the junction of Ninian Road and Alder Road. It is a square red kiosk made of cast iron, standing on a moulded plinth. The domed roof features four lunettes that contain embossed crowns of Elizabeth II, along with red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door of the kiosk have raised surrounds with marginal bars framing the horizontal glazing.

Local climate

Telephone call box at junction of Ninian Road and Alder Road 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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