K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- floating-railing-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Kiosk
- OS grid reference
- NZ 210 612
- Coordinates
- 54.94561, -1.67316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, located adjacent to the Council Offices in Whickham, is a Grade II listed structure. This kiosk was designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and was produced by various contractors. It is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels have unperforated crowns, and the windows and door are fitted with margin glazing.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Council Offices receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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