Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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 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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