Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone call-box at Soar (01874 636331)
Trallong, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Soar, Brecon, Trallong, Powys, designated on 27 May 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 27 May 2005
- Locality
- Soar
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97732, -3.49976
- Cadw reference
- 84455
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on roadside at W edge of hamlet.
History
Telephone call box of K6 type, designed in 1936 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the GPO. This one made before 1953.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with Soaneian shallow domed roof , George VI crowns in lunettes, over glazed rectangles lettered ''Telephone''. Sides and door are glazed with marginal panes. Blank rear.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Capel Soar and adjoining house.
Nearby in the register
- House at SoarDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel SoarReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Twyn-y-GaerHillfortunder 1 mi
- Aberyscir Round CairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.