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Latitude: 51.8716 / 51°52'17"N
Longitude: -3.1664 / 3°9'58"W
OS Eastings: 319795
OS Northings: 219863
OS Grid: SO197198
Mapcode National: GBR YZ.S970
Mapcode Global: VH6CH.27F3
Plus Code: 9C3RVRCM+JF
Entry Name: Automobile Association Telephone call box 161 at Nantyffin
Listing Date: 21 July 2020
Last Amended: 15 April 2021
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 87808
Building Class: Communications
ID on this website: 300087808
Location: On the S side of the A40 opposite the Cider House Inn and the junction with the A479.
County: Powys
Community: Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine (Llanfihangel Cwm Du gyda Bwlch a Chathedin)
Community: Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
Locality: Pont-y-bryn-hurt
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
The Automobile Association was established in 1905 and from 1912 established the roadside sentry boxes that would later evolve into emergency telephone boxes. The cross-gabled roof became an established feature from 1921. Surviving AA phone boxes are of a type designed in 1956 by Enham Industries, Enham Alamein, Hampshire. In total 862 boxes were erected in Britain, 57 of which were in Wales. Box 161 was erected between 1960 and 1963 by WI Hampshire & Sons of Raglan. In the 1990s the AA re-branded all of its surviving boxes with its original winged badge, replacing the simpler square logo that had been introduced in 1967.
The roadside call box is square in plan and tapering, constructed of black-painted galvanised sheet metal riveted to angle strips, which are painted yellow. The structure has a cross-gabled roof, painted metallic grey, with central raised ventilator. The winged AA badge, painted yellow, is fixed to the 3 gables that face the road, and on to the door. Panels on the door, the sides facing the road and the cross gables record the box number and the name, all renewed in the 1990s.
Not seen at inspection.
Listed as a very rare survival of a once familiar roadside structure associated with the early years of mass car ownership.
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