Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box at Forest Coalpit
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Forest Coalpit, Crucorney, Monmouthshire, designated on 1 February 2021.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 1 February 2021
- Welsh name
- Blwch Ffôn ym Mhwll Glo Forest
- Locality
- Forest Coalpit
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88403, -3.04007
- Cadw reference
- 87821
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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
20m north of Five Ways crossing on right hand side of road.
History
In the 1950s a number of phone boxes across the UK were painted in neutral colours in the newly established National Parks to make them less visually obtrusive – the Brecon Beacons National Park was designated in 1957. No other painted phone boxes are known to have survived in Wales's National Parks.
Exterior
K6-type telephone box of cast iron construction. Domed roof with 4 lunettes over glazed lettered panels marked 'Telephone'. Raised surrounds to sides and door with sidebar glazing to horizontal panels. Blank rear. Painted battleship grey.
Reason for designation
Listed for architectural interest as a classic telephone box with an unusual colour scheme, and historic interest for its link to the establishment of Brecon Beacons National Park in 1957.
Nearby in the register
- Pontyspig CottageDefenceunder 1 mi
- Pont YspigTransportunder 1 mi
- Pontyspig FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- NeuaddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.