Six K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside General Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Telephone kiosk.

Six K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside General Post Office

WRENN ID
sacred-passage-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Six K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside General Post Office, City Square
OS grid reference
SE 298 334
Coordinates
53.79659, -1.54812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

There is a row of six K6 telephone kiosks located outside the General Post Office in City Square, Leeds. These kiosks were designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and were made by various contractors. They are constructed from cast iron and feature square, domed roofs with unperforated crowns on the top panels, as well as margin glazing on the windows and doors.

Local climate

Six K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside General Post Office receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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