Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Automobile Association Telephone Call Box
Buan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 8 March 1994
- Locality
- Boduan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Buan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91150, -4.49337
- Cadw reference
- 14430
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 on NE side of the A497, some 100m NW of Boduan church.
History
Automobile Association emergency service telephone box of the type that replaced pre-war boxes during the 1950s. There were some 1,000 in Great Britain of which 24 survive, less than 10 in Wales.
Exterior
Roadside telephone box in black-painted galvanised sheet metal over timber. Cross-gabled roof painted silver with centre capped vent. Yellow strips to main angles, door on SW front. Yellow painted 'Box 580' each side and more recent AA motif in side gables and on front sheet-metal door. Concrete plinth.
Interior
Altered interior. White painted internally with white perspex ceiling. Small floor-cupboard and c1990s wall-mounted phone.
Reason for designation
Grade II as a good example of a now relatively rare emergency service telephone box of the 1950s.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St BuanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Out-buildings at Home Farm, Plas BoduanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas BoduanDomesticunder 1 mi
- BryntirionDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.