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
83423
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/12/2004
Date of Amendment
23/12/2004
Name of Property
Telephone Call-box outside The Old Post Office
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ysbyty Ystwyth
Town
Ystrad Meurig
Locality
Pontrhydygroes
Easting
273921
Northing
272386
Street Side
E
Location
Situated in centre of village outside former the Old Post Office.
Description
Broad Class
Communications
Period
History
Telephone call box of standard K6 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott made for the GPO in 1930s. The family of the postmaster from 1904, D.J. Davies, had a letter of 5/3/1934 giving consent for the erection of a telephone kiosk on the forecourt of the shop, at an annual rental of one shilling.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with shallow-domed top and George VI crown in lunettes, over glazed panels lettered ''Telephone''. Door and sides have glazing in 8 bands, each with marginal glazing bars. Blank rear with maker''s plaque of Carron Co. Stirlingshire.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Old Post Office.
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