Telephone Call-box is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 July 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-box, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
ST 073 904
Coordinates
51.60507, -3.33861
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a square, red telephone kiosk made of cast iron, standing on a moulded base. It features raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The back of the kiosk is plain. The domed roof has four lunettes that contain embossed crowns above ventilation slits and is fitted with modern opals.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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