Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box at road junction
Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 2 March 1994
- Locality
- Bryn
- Community
- Cenarth
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03345, -4.50972
- Cadw reference
- 14237
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at crossroads N of Bryn Farm, some 1.7km SE of Cenarth.
History
Later C20 telephone call box, K6 type, red cast-iron kiosk to the standard design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott introduced by the GPO in 1936.
Exterior
Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed Queen Elizabeth II crowns over lettered transparent panels and ventilation slits. Horizontal glazing to sides and wooden door, with marginal glazing bars, raised surrounds and moulded plinth. Blank rear with foundry plate of Carron Foundry, Stirlingshire.
Reason for designation
Included for its setting in a good rural location.
Nearby in the register
- Pengwern UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lofted Cartshed at Pengwarn UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Yet FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.