Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone call box in Tredunnock
Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 24 August 1990
- Date of amendment
- 24 March 2025
- Welsh name
- Blwch ffôn yn Nhredynog
- Locality
- Tredunnock
- Community
- Llangybi
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64872, -2.89875
- Cadw reference
- 2842
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
On north side of minor road (St Andrew’s Walk) through Tredunnock, near the driveway to Tyr-Eglwys and 40m west of the lychgate at St Andrews.
History
To the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. Design introduced by GPO in 1936; this example dates from the reign of King George VI and probably dates from after WWII. Foundry plate not visible.
Originally set into a retaining wall of the car park at Newbridge Inn, moved to its present location in 2023, and fitted with a defibrillator.
Exterior
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction. Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth.
Reason for designation
Included as a traditional telephone box in a prominent heritage location; and group value with the War Memorial Lychgate at Church of St. Andrew (qv87128), and other listed buildings in Tredunnock.
Nearby in the register
- War Memorial Lychgate at Church of St. AndrewCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Ton FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gate and Fence to the Churchyard of the Church of St. AndrewCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard of Church of St. AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.