Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone call-box in Llanddew (01874 622280)
Llanddew, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 25 January 2005
- Locality
- Llanddew
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Llanddew
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.96700, -3.37640
- Cadw reference
- 83497
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Near the church on the SW side of the crossroads in the centre of Llanddew village.
History
Telephone kiosk of type designed in 1936 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the GPO. This one made after 1953, by the Carron Co., Stirlingshire.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with shallow Soaneian dome, the lunettes with Elizabeth II crowns over glazed panels lettered ''Telephone''. Sides and door have glazing in vertical row of eight long panes each with marginal pane each side, door glazing is cast-iron set in wood. Makers plate to rear.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the parish church and lychgate in the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate to Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing wallsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old VicarageWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Village pumpNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.