K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 2010. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- heavy-stone-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 2010
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Bassingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 911 600
- Coordinates
- 53.1295, -0.63876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk is a standardised design dating from 1935, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V’s Silver Jubilee. It is constructed of cast iron, painted red, and features long horizontal glazing in the door and sides. Decorative crowns are applied to the top panels rather than being perforated. Rectangular white display signs read “TELEPHONE” beneath the shallow-domed roof. The interior has been modernised, though the kiosk retains its original glass windows and back panel, and is undamaged.
The kiosk stands on the High Street in the centre of the village, located outside a former wooden telephone exchange building. It stands within a group, approximately 20 metres away across the High Street from two 18th-century listed buildings – Green's Stores and The Tall House. To the south of the High Street is an unlisted Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1839.
The K6 design represented a development from Giles Gilbert Scott’s earlier K2 kiosk, designed in 1924, being more streamlined, compact and cost-effective to mass produce. Over 70,000 K6 kiosks were eventually made, and they remain a valued feature of Britain's streetscapes.
The kiosk is designated at Grade II for its group value, contributing to the character of the conservation area and visually relating to the nearby listed buildings, and for its architectural and historic significance as a milestone of 20th-century industrial design from a leading British architect.
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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings