Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms inn
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, designated on 18 June 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 18 June 2004
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99416, -3.79225
- Cadw reference
- 82902
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on E side of junction with Gelli Deg.
History
Telephone box of the standard type designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the Post Office in 1936.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, painted cast-iron with shallow Soaneian domed roof with lunettes with embossed George VI crowns over glazed lettered panels marked 'Telephone'. Glazed sides and timber door with matching glazed panel, all with marginal glazing bars to long horizontal panes.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Kings Arms inn and No 54.
Nearby in the register
- The King's ArmsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Ty-Ficar PritchardDomesticunder 1 mi
- Britannia HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 38 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.