Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box (tel no: 01758 712206)
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangian, Pwllheli, Llanengan, Gwynedd, designated on 10 May 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 10 May 1988
- Locality
- Llangian
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.83073, -4.53210
- Cadw reference
- 4612
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated opposite Y Siop Llangian in centre of village, on S side of lane to Botwnnog, set into rubble stone bank.
History
Telephone call-box to standard design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott introduced in 1936, this example with George VI crown pre-1953.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron, square plan with glazed front and left side, matching glazed door to right side, blank rear. Glazing is in raised surround and of 8 vertically-arranged horizontal panels with marginal glazing bars. Above, glazed translucent lettered panels under Soaneian shallow dome with embossed crowns in lunettes.
Interior
Modernised telephone equipment.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with adjoining listed buildings in attractive village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Siop LlangianCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ty'n LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St CianReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stone in St Cian's Churchyard, LlangianInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.