Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box
Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 24 August 1990
- Locality
- Raglan
- Town
- Raglan
- Community
- Raglan
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76468, -2.85251
- Cadw reference
- 2838
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
Situated some 50m W of junction with Chepstow Road opposite Beaufort Arms Hotel.
History
Telephone kiosk of K6 type, to standard design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott introduced by the GPO in 1936, this example dates from the reign of George VI.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, square, red-painted, cast-iron, with wooden door. Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed George VI crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth. Foundry plate not visible.
Reason for designation
Included as a telephone call-box of the earlier to mid C20, prominently sited in the streetscape of Raglan.
Nearby in the register
- Castell CochDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Raglan Churchyard CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Cross in St Cadoc's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.