Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box in Cradoc
Yscir, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 23 March 2005
- Locality
- Cradoc
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Yscir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.96494, -3.43152
- Cadw reference
- 84278
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
At the crossroads on the E side of Cradoc village opposite The Old Smithy.
History
Telephone kiosk of type designed in 1936 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the GPO. This one made before 1953, by the Lion Foundry Co. Ltd., Kirkintilloch.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with shallow Soaneian dome, the lunettes with George VI 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 Old Smithy in the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- The Old SmithyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fennifach Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Penoyre HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance gatepiers and gates to PenoyreDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.