Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. A 20th century Telephone kiosk.
Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office
- WRENN ID
- peeling-keep-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Period
- 20th century
- Address
- Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office, Wallgate
- OS grid reference
- SD 581 056
- Coordinates
- 53.54543, -2.63242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of K6 telephone kiosks, located outside the Head Post Office, were designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. They are made of cast iron and feature a square shape with domed roofs. The kiosks have unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and doors. They form a group with the Head Post Office nearby.
Local climate
Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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