Telephone Call-Box is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 June 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call-Box

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 June 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call-Box, Groeswen, Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn
OS grid reference
ST 127 869
Coordinates
51.57502, -3.26065
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a square red telephone call box made of cast iron. It features a domed roof with four lunettes that have embossed crowns and ventilation slits. The sides and door have raised surrounds with marginal bars on the horizontal glazing. The rear is blank, and it stands on a moulded plinth.

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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