K1 Telephone Box at the National Tramway Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1987. Telephone box.

K1 Telephone Box at the National Tramway Museum

WRENN ID
woven-bonework-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1987
Type
Telephone box
Address
K1 Telephone Box at the National Tramway Museum, Matlock Road, Crich, DE4 5DP
OS grid reference
SK 345 548
Coordinates
53.08958, -1.48616
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K1 Telephone Box at The National Tramway Museum is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1921. It is made of pre-cast concrete, iron, and wood, featuring a square plan. The box has a wooden door with a six-pane window, and similar windows are located on the sides. It has projecting eaves and a curved roof, which is topped with a single enamelled sign on each side that reads "TELEPHONE." Above the signs are curly iron embellishments and a spearhead finial. Originally, this telephone box was located within the grounds of Birch Hill Hospital in Rochdale.

Local climate

K1 Telephone Box at the National Tramway Museum receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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