Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office
Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontrhydygroes, Ystrad Meurig, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 23 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 23 December 2004
- Locality
- Pontrhydygroes
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Ysbyty Ystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33503, -3.85183
- Cadw reference
- 83423
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in centre of village outside former the Old Post Office.
History
Telephone call box of standard K6 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott made for the GPO in 1930s. The family of the postmaster from 1904, D.J. Davies, had a letter of 5/3/1934 giving consent for the erection of a telephone kiosk on the forecourt of the shop, at an annual rental of one shilling.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with shallow-domed top and George VI crown in lunettes, over glazed panels lettered ''Telephone''. Door and sides have glazing in 8 bands, each with marginal glazing bars. Blank rear with maker''s plaque of Carron Co. Stirlingshire.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Old Post Office.
Nearby in the register
- The Old Post OfficeCommercialunder 1 mi
- BronygraigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lisburne HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Gwynfryn and IsfrynIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.