K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite King Georges Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. A C20 Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite King Georges Hall
- WRENN ID
- white-cobalt-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite King Georges Hall, Blakey Moor
- OS grid reference
- SD 680 281
- Coordinates
- 53.74871, -2.48538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
K6 Telephone Kiosk opposite King George's Hall is a Grade II listed telephone kiosk. It is a Type K6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and made by various contractors. The kiosk is constructed 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 door.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite King Georges Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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