Telephone Kiosk Outside Entrance to Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Kiosk Outside Entrance to Town Hall

WRENN ID
solemn-timber-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1988
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Kiosk Outside Entrance to Town Hall, Wakefield Road, WF12 8DG
OS grid reference
SE 247 217
Coordinates
53.69166, -1.62648
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This telephone kiosk, located outside the entrance to the Town Hall, is a Type K6 structure designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It was manufactured by the Canon Company and is made of cast iron. The kiosk features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated replacement Elizabeth II crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.

Local climate

Telephone Kiosk Outside Entrance to Town Hall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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