Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box
Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 10 May 1988
- Locality
- Llanaelhaearn
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanaelhaearn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97568, -4.40222
- Cadw reference
- 4611
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The call box stands at the junction of the village street with the main Caernarfon to Pwllheli road (A499).
History
The standard K6 Jubilee pattern cast iron public telephone kiosk was derived from the original design of 1936 by Giles Gilbert Scott. The mark 1 was superceded by the Mark 2 in 1939. They were generally manufactured by a number of foundries, mostly in the Glasgow area.
Exterior
Type 6 mark 1 box, made of cast iron in kit form for assembly on site, with a domed roof and 4 lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals, and ventilation slits. Margin glazed sides and door, and plain back with symmetrical cable entry holes. There is no identifying manufacturer''s plate and the crown in the lunettes is the replacable type introduced 1955.
Interior
The interior has been modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the townscape in the centre of this section of Llanaelhaearn.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St AelhaearnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Part of Inscribed Stone Built into Wall of ChurchyardInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Early Christian Inscribed Stone in the Churchyard, LlanaelhaearnInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Tre'r Ceiri CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.