Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box at N end of bridge over disused railway (01248 670285)
Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 18 November 1988
- Locality
- Aber Pwll
- Town
- Y Felinheli
- Community
- Y Felinheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18962, -4.19919
- Cadw reference
- 4147
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the NE end of Y Felinheli in the Aber Pwll area. On the SE side of the road, N of and close to the bridge over the disused Bangor to Caernarvon railway.
History
Telephone call-box to standard K6 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, introduced by the GPO in 1936.
Exterior
Red-painted cast-iron kiosk with two glazed sides, blank rear and wooden door with inserted glazed iron panel. Square plan with raised plinth, glazing each side in horizontal panels with marginal bars. Top has four opalescent panels under shallow Soaneian domed roof with lunettes, each with embossed George VI crown. Rubble wall to rear continuing from the parapet of the bridge.
Reason for designation
Included for prominent location in this Conservation Area.
Nearby in the register
- Y FronDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae GlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae GlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae GlasDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.