Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box opposite Mount Pleasant Farm
Llangan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangan, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 23 November 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 23 November 1992
- Locality
- Llangan
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llangan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48720, -3.50223
- Cadw reference
- 13480
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the southern entry to Llangan village across the road from Mount Pleasant Farm.
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
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse with attached BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Cross at Church of St CannaNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Medieval Cross in ChurchyardCrossunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.