Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box
Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 28 August 1990
- Locality
- Gwytherin
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Llangernyw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13857, -3.68168
- Cadw reference
- 274
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The telephone call box is located beside the car park of the Lion Inn S of Gwytherin village centre, on the W side of the minor road leading S out of the village, set into recess in stone boundary wall opposite the walled site of old smithy.
History
Standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect, introduced by GPO in 1936. This example dates from the reign of King George VI.
Exterior
Telephone call box, K6 type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction. Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals (2 removed) and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth. Foundry plate inscribed: ''Macfarlane & Co Ltd, Saracen Foundry, Glasgow''.
Reason for designation
Included because of prominent location on southern outskirts of attractive old village.
Nearby in the register
- Group of Four Inscribed Stones in Gwytherin ChurchyardInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of St WinifredReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. Gwenfrewi's Chapel, GwytherinChapelunder 1 mi
- Bryn GoleuAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.