Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone call-box at Soar (01874 636331)
Trallong, Powys, Wales
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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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
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.