Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to South West Corner of Number 130c (Head Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1987. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to South West Corner of Number 130c (Head Post Office)

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
SD 337 173
Coordinates
53.64872, -3.00373
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a telephone kiosk located adjacent to the south-west corner of number 130C, the Head Post Office, in Southport. It was built in 1935 and is of the K6 type, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The kiosk 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

Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to South West Corner of Number 130c (Head Post Office) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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