Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14430
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/03/1994
Date of Amendment
15/07/1998
Name of Property
Automobile Association Telephone Call Box
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Buan
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Boduan
Easting
232434
Northing
337808
Street Side
Location
Situated on NE side of the A497, some 100m NW of Boduan church.
Description
Broad Class
Communications
Period
History
Automobile Association emergency service telephone box of the type that replaced pre-war boxes during the 1950s. There were some 1,000 in Great Britain of which 24 survive, less than 10 in Wales.
Exterior
Roadside telephone box in black-painted galvanised sheet metal over timber. Cross-gabled roof painted silver with centre capped vent. Yellow strips to main angles, door on SW front. Yellow painted 'Box 580' each side and more recent AA motif in side gables and on front sheet-metal door. Concrete plinth.
Interior
Altered interior. White painted internally with white perspex ceiling. Small floor-cupboard and c1990s wall-mounted phone.
Reason for designation
Grade II as a good example of a now relatively rare emergency service telephone box of the 1950s.
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