Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box outside the Post Office
Caerleon, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 21 December 1992
- Locality
- Caerleon
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Caerleon
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.60949, -2.95375
- Cadw reference
- 3094
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 the pavement immediately outside the Post Office in the centre of Caerleon.
History
Design introduced by the GPO in 1936 to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London, but this example was probably installed after WWII.
Exterior
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast iron construction. Embossed foundry plate not decipherable. Domed roof with 4 lunettes with King George VI crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to the door and sides with marginal glazing bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth.
Reason for designation
Included for its strong group value with the surrounding historic buildings in the centre of Caerleon.
Nearby in the register
- Letter Box outside the Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The Post OfficeDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 30 including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 32 including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.