Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box opposite Abercastle Mill
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abercastle/Abercastell, Mathry, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 April 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1993
- Locality
- Abercastle/Abercastell
- Community
- Mathry
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95885, -5.12533
- Cadw reference
- 12943
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on downhill bend on road into Abercastle from Mathry.
History
Red telephone kiosk of K6-type, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936.
Exterior
Cast-iron, square with domed roof over four lunettes with George VI crowns, over lettered panels. Two fixed sides with raised surrounds, horizontal glazing panels with side bars, matching timber door. Blank rear.
Reason for designation
Included for setting opposite former mill on approach to Abercastle.
Nearby in the register
- Abercastle Mill/Felin AbercastellIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Lime-Kiln between Coastal Slope & The BeachIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to NW of Y GarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Y GarnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.