Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box outside No.39A
Pontcanna, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 18 December 1989
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Pontcanna
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48411, -3.19210
- Cadw reference
- 14121
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 this unified Conservation Area of Victorian housing.
History
Design introduced by the GPO in 1936 to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London, but this example may 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
- 29 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 22 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 25 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.