Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box outside garden wall of Hamilton House (01646 682198)
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, designated on 7 June 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 7 June 1988
- Locality
- Pembroke
- Town
- Pembroke
- Community
- Pembroke
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67501, -4.91359
- Cadw reference
- 6549
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of Main Street at its W junction with East Back and just W of the garden wall of Hamilton House.
History
Telephone call-box of K6 type designed in 1936 for the GPO by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this one made before 1953. Makers mark of McDowall Stevens & Co Ltd of London and Falkirk.
Exterior
Telephone call-box, red-painted cast-iron with shallow dome of Soaneian type with embossed George VI crowns in lunettes over glazed panels marked ''''Telephone''''. Sides and timber door with glazing of 8 horizontal panes with marginal panes, in raised overall surrounds. Blank rear with makers plate.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items in Main Street.
Nearby in the register
- 83&85 Main StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pembroke Market Emporium (Former National School)Educationunder 1 mi
- Elm Tree HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Oakfield House including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.