Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 25 February 1991
- Locality
- Greatoak
- Town
- Raglan
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78511, -2.89311
- Cadw reference
- 2849
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 in Greatoak village, on E side of road S of Pentre Derwen, 1914 block of estate houses.
History
Telephone kiosk of K6 type designed in 1936 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the GPO. This one with George VI crown.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron. 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 for attractive village location on southern edge of parkland to Llanarth Court.
Nearby in the register
- Plas yr HaulDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pentre DerwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Great OakDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gweckery FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.