Two Telephone Call-boxes beside The Shire Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 2005. Telephone call box.
Two Telephone Call-boxes beside The Shire Hall
- WRENN ID
- weathered-screen-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 August 2005
- Type
- Telephone call box
- Address
- Two Telephone Call-boxes beside The Shire Hall, Monmouth
- OS grid reference
- SO 507 128
- Coordinates
- 51.8121, -2.71527
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This listing describes a pair of cast iron K6 type telephone call boxes located beside The Shire Hall. They have a rectangular plan and feature a domed roof. The boxes have small paned windows on two sides and a timber door with small panes at the front. The rear is plain iron with the maker's name located at the base. Above the doors and windows, there is opalescent glass with the word "TELEPHONE." The dome is supported by flat squinches that carry crowns, with one side displaying the crown of Elizabeth II and the other side the crown of George VI.
Local climate
Two Telephone Call-boxes beside The Shire Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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