Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box outside the old Drill Hall
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 3 November 1988
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82356, -3.02081
- Cadw reference
- 2800
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
Set into forecourt garden at rear of wide pavement outside former Drill Hall (Roseby's). Located within Abergavenny conservation area.
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 probably installed after World War II.
Exterior
Cast iron and glass with a timber door. Domed roof with four lunettes containing King George VI crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to door and sides with marginal glazing bars to horizontal glazing. Rear foundry plate illegible.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a K6 telephone box in a heritage location.
Nearby in the register
- The Britannia Public HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- BarclaysCommercialunder 1 mi
- 17 Frogmore StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 18 Frogmore StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.