K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 2010. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- open-barrel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 2010
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street, Caldecott
- OS grid reference
- SP 867 935
- Coordinates
- 52.5328, -0.72222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk dates from 1935 and is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall. It features long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, with applied crowns on the top panels, rather than perforated ones. Rectangular white display signs read “TELEPHONE” beneath the shallow-curved roof. The interior has modernised equipment, and retains all original glass windows except for two.
The kiosk is situated on the village green, centrally located within a group of listed buildings, including 1 The Green (approximately 30m to the north east), The Old Plough (approximately 30m to the south east), and Monkey Tree Cottage (approximately 30m to the north west).
The K6 was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to mark King George V's Silver Jubilee. It evolved from his earlier, highly successful K2 design of 1924, which drew inspiration from Neo-classical architecture. The K6 was more streamlined, compact, and cost-effective for mass production. Over 70,000 were produced before being largely replaced in the 1960s.
The K6 telephone kiosk is designated at Grade II for its strong visual relationship with adjacent listed buildings and as a representative example of this important 20th-century industrial design within a village setting.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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