Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box opposite entrance to Abergavenny Railway Station
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
- 51.81711, -3.00937
- Cadw reference
- 2802
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
Prominently located against the boundary fence opposite the main pedestrian entrance to station. One of a small group of historic buildings at the railway station, about 1km south-east of the Town Hall.
History
K6 type kiosk to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. Design introduced by GPO in 1936, this example dating from after 1952. Embossed foundry plate: ''Carron Foundry, Stirlingshire''.
Exterior
Square, red kiosk of cast iron construction. Domed roof with four lunettes containing Queen Elizabeth II crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to door and sides with marginal glazing bars to horizontal (perspex) glazing. Blank rear, plinth.
Reason for designation
Included as a K6 telephone call-box in a heritage location in the forecourt of the listed railway station.
Nearby in the register
- Abergavenny Railway Station, including down platform building and footbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Great Western HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- FairleaDomesticunder 1 mi
- 30 Monmouth RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.