Group of Nine Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Telephone kiosks. 2 related planning applications.
Group of Nine Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office
- WRENN ID
- leaning-copper-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosks
- Address
- Group of Nine Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office, Market Street, PR1 1AH
- OS grid reference
- SD 539 294
- Coordinates
- 53.75969, -2.69975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of nine telephone kiosks located outside the Head Post Office in Preston. The kiosks are of the K6 type, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and were made by various contractors. They are constructed from cast iron and painted red. Eight of the kiosks stand in pairs near the south end of the post office, while one is detached at the north end. The kiosks are square with domed roofs, featuring unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin panes on the windows and doors.
Local climate
Group of Nine Telephone Kiosks Outside Head Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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