K6 Telephone Kiosk on Hamilton Street at junction with Duncan Street, adjacent to Hamilton Square is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk on Hamilton Street at junction with Duncan Street, adjacent to Hamilton Square

WRENN ID
hidden-floor-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
SJ 325 888
Coordinates
53.39255, -3.01535
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk, located on Hamilton Street at the junction with Duncan Street, adjacent to Hamilton Square, is a Grade II listed structure. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this kiosk is made from cast-iron and glass.

The K6 features a standardized design, painted red, and consists of a square structure topped with a shallow domed roof. The door and sides are adorned with eight horizontal strips of glass, complemented by narrow margin lights. Above these, the top panels display rectangular white signs that read "TELEPHONE," each topped with applied relief crowns. Both telephone kiosks are intact but have modernized internal equipment.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosk on Hamilton Street at junction with Duncan Street, adjacent to Hamilton Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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