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
87871
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/07/2022
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
K8 Phonebox, Nebo
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllyfni
Town
Locality
Nebo
Easting
247813
Northing
350493
Street Side
N
Location
In the small hamlet of Nebo, adjacent to Glan Gors Uchaf, Ffordd Nebo LL54 6EF.
Description
Broad Class
Communications
Period
Modern
History
The K8 phone kiosk was designed in 1965-6 by the architect Bruce Martin and was introduced in July 1968. There were two distinct designs for the roof, the mark 1 which has a curving line running round the roof and the much more common mark 2 in which the illuminated panel is enclosed in a simple lozenge shaped cast that was introduced after 1976. BT started to replace the K8 from 1984/5 and very few survive in situ. As a mark 2 design this phone kiosk was probably installed sometime between 1976 and 1984.
Exterior
Mark 2 design consisting of six cast iron parts and an aluminium door. Three sides of the kiosk, including the door, contain large sheets of toughened glass or perspex set in rectangular frames with rounded corners. The kiosk has a square plan with a flat roof dome that is glazed with toughened glass on four sides with rectangular panes, again with rounded corners, each bearing the word 'TELEPHONE' on a white background. Glass panel facing road replaced with plastic.
Interior
Phone and all other telecom equipment removed.
Reason for designation
Listed as the only known survival in situ of a K8 phone kiosk in Wales. The K8 was the last public phone kiosk commissioned by the GPO and designed by an architect. As such it contributes to our understanding of the historic development of the telecommunications industry and the use of public telephone kiosks, particularly in connecting remote rural communities to the outside world, before the introduction and widespread use of domestic landlines and, later on, mobile phones.
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