Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone call box at Old Post Office.
Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 15 October 2004
- Locality
- Rosebush
- Town
- Clynderwen
- Community
- Maenclochog
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.93075, -4.80021
- Cadw reference
- 83189
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
At the roadside in Rosebush on the E end of the Old Post Office.
History
Telephone call-box of K6 type designed for the GPO in the 1930s by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott architect. This one of George VI's reign.
Exterior
Telephone call-box, red-painted cast-iron kiosk with shallow Soaneian dome over lunettes with embossed George VI crown and lettered glazed panels reading 'Telephone'. Sides and door are glazed vertically with 8 horizontal panes each with narrow marginal panes. Raised moulded surrounds and plinth. Blank rear. Number (01437) 532285.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Old Post Office.
Nearby in the register
- Rosebush HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eithbed EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Cnwc Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Budloy Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.