Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box beside Clarence Hall and opposite Tower Street
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 27 November 1992
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85838, -3.13640
- Cadw reference
- 7529
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited on A40; set to rear of pavement close to public toilets.
History
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction to the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. Design introduced by GPO in 1936; this example dates from the Queen Elizabeth II. Foundry plate inscribed: "Carron Company, Stirlingshire".
Exterior
Domed roof with four lunettes containing embosed crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth.
Reason for designation
Included within the Crickhowell conservation area.
Nearby in the register
- Grahame Amey AntiquesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bank BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Tower StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bank BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.