Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box below Mountain Rescue Post at pass over Brecon Beacons (01874 622300)
Glyn Tarell, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Storey Arms, Brecon, Glyn Tarell, Powys, designated on 27 November 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 27 November 1992
- Locality
- Storey Arms
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Glyn Tarell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87231, -3.47977
- Cadw reference
- 7528
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1853 · Sheet XLII SW Becon - Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, One-inch to the mile, Old… (National Library of Scotland)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on NE side of A470 below Storey Arms on pass from Glyn Tarell to Merthyr Tydfil.
History
Telephone kiosk of K6 type designed for the GPO in 1936 by Giles Gilbert Scott. This example dates from after 1953 and was made by the Carron Company, Stirlingshire.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red painted cast-iron with Soaneian domed roof over four lunettes containing embossed Elizabeth II crowns over red lettered glass panels. Raised surrounds to two sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Moulded plinth. Foundry plate on blank rear.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest in a remarkable landscape location high in Brecon Beacons over Glyn Tarell.
Nearby in the register
- Storey Arms Anti-invasion DefencesInfantry support trenchunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A 470 N of Beacons ReservoirTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A 470Transportunder 1 mi
- Blaen Glyn Round CairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.