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Telephone Call-box

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9757 / 52°58'32"N

Longitude: -4.4022 / 4°24'7"W

OS Eastings: 238801

OS Northings: 344737

OS Grid: SH388447

Mapcode National: GBR 5B.JK49

Mapcode Global: WH444.BGYM

Plus Code: 9C4QXHGX+74

Entry Name: Telephone Call-box

Listing Date: 10 May 1988

Last Amended: 20 July 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4611

Building Class: Communications

ID on this website: 300004611

Location: The call box stands at the junction of the village street with the main Caernarfon to Pwllheli road (A499).

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Llanaelhaearn

Community: Llanaelhaearn

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Red telephone box K6 telephone box

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History

The standard K6 Jubilee pattern cast iron public telephone kiosk was derived from the original design of 1936 by Giles Gilbert Scott. The mark 1 was superceded by the Mark 2 in 1939. They were generally manufactured by a number of foundries, mostly in the Glasgow area.

Exterior

Type 6 mark 1 box, made of cast iron in kit form for assembly on site, with a domed roof and 4 lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals, and ventilation slits. Margin glazed sides and door, and plain back with symmetrical cable entry holes. There is no identifying manufacturer''s plate and the crown in the lunettes is the replacable type introduced 1955.

Interior

The interior has been modernised.

Reasons for Listing

Included as part of the townscape in the centre of this section of Llanaelhaearn.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II* Church of St Aelhaearn
    The church stands in the centre of a large irregular churchyard at the centre of the village, bounded by the road on the S and W.
  • II Elernion
    The house stands SW of the minor road leading from the A499 into Trefor, at about 600m from the centre of the village.

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