Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box sited against the N side of churchyard wall
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandeilo Graban, Painscastle, Powys, designated on 9 March 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 9 March 1995
- Locality
- Llandeilo Graban
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.09335, -3.32429
- Cadw reference
- 15905
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into grass verge on N side of circular churchyard wall facing road junction.
History
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. Design introduced by GPO in 1936; this example dates from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Foundry plate inscribed: "W MacFarlane & Co Ltd, Saracen Foundry, Glasgow".
Exterior
Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with St Teilo''s Church in a fine rural setting.
Nearby in the register
- Church to St TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The SkreenDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-plan group of farmyard ranges at Ynys Wye FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ynys Wye FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.