Telephone Call-box outside Pioneer Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1999. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-box outside Pioneer Hotel

WRENN ID
stranded-oriel-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 September 1999
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-box outside Pioneer Hotel, Cwmfelin-Fach, Ynysddu
OS grid reference
ST 184 917
Coordinates
51.61858, -3.1786
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The telephone call box outside the Pioneer Hotel is a Grade II listed structure. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that have red lettered opals and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with margin bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank, and there is a moulded plinth. The telephone equipment inside has been modernised.

Local climate

Telephone Call-box outside Pioneer Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
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