Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardens
Pontcanna, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cardiff, Pontcanna, designated on 18 December 1989.
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
- 51.48478, -3.19544
- Cadw reference
- 14122
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (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 four lunettes with King George VI crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits.
Reason for designation
Included as a K6 telephone call box in a heritage location.
Nearby in the register
- Pillar Box outside No.82Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St Mary of the AngelsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 110 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 112 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.