Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-Box outside Old White Hart P.H.
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1990
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40839, -3.48656
- Cadw reference
- 13453
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In the centre of Llantwit Major beside the War Memorial.
History
Design introduced by the GPO in 1936 to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. This example may well have been installed after WWII.
Exterior
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast iron construction. Raised surrounds to the door and sides with marginal glazing bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth. Domed roof with 4 lunettes with King George VI crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits.
Reason for designation
Included as a telephone call box in a heritage location.
Nearby in the register
- War MemorialReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old White Hart P.H.Domesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tudor Tavern P.H.Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.