Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Police Telephone Box
Alway, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1999
- Community
- Alway
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58830, -2.95937
- Cadw reference
- 21458
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
Currently to E of junction with Hawthorn Avenue but varies through time and space.
History
The box probably dates from the 1930's, when Police Forces were using telephone communications both for contact of Officers, and for direct contact of Police Stations.
Exterior
Police telephone box with concrete framework, and iron panels, painted blue. Stepped roof bears cylindrical lamp. Small hatch to Chepstow Road; altered small-pane doorway to W.
Reason for designation
An extremely rare example in Wales of a Police telephone box.
Nearby in the register
- Beechwood House, attached forecourt wall and attached coach-house rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Lime KilnIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Cambrian HouseHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.