K6 Outside Number 13 (Longhirst Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1995. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Outside Number 13 (Longhirst Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- weathered-hammer-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1995
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Outside Number 13 (Longhirst Post Office), Longhirst Village
- OS grid reference
- NZ 224 892
- Coordinates
- 55.1974, -1.64831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk located outside number 13, Longhirst Post Office, is a Grade II listed structure. This kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and doors. The kiosk was produced by various contractors.
Local climate
K6 Outside Number 13 (Longhirst Post Office) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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