Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box (tel no: 01758 712919)
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanengan, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, designated on 10 May 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 10 May 1988
- Locality
- Llanengan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81353, -4.53224
- Cadw reference
- 4613
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in Llanengan village on T-junction with road from Llangian. Recessed into rubble-faced bank.
History
Telephone call-box to standard K6 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott introduced by the GPO in 1936. This example has the George VI crown, pre 1953.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron square plan with curved angles, two glazed sides and glazed front door. Raised surrounds to glazing panels and door, glazing in horizontal tiers with marginal bars. Top has translucent lettered panels and Soaneian shallow square dome with embossed crowns in lunettes. Blank rear.
Interior
Modernised telephone equipment.
Reason for designation
Included for prominent location in centre of an attractive village.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Wall and Gate E of Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to S of Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- GorphwysfaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.