Pair of Telephone Kiosks on North Side of Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. Telephone kiosk.
Pair of Telephone Kiosks on North Side of Public Library
- WRENN ID
- tangled-threshold-flax
- 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
- Pair of Telephone Kiosks on North Side of Public Library, Market Place
- OS grid reference
- SE 242 242
- Coordinates
- 53.71393, -1.63418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of telephone kiosks located on the north side of the public library in Batley. They are of the K6 type, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The kiosks are made of cast iron and are square in shape with domed roofs. The top panels feature unperforated replacement crowns of Elizabeth II, and the windows and doors have margin glazing.
Local climate
Pair of Telephone Kiosks on North Side of Public Library 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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