K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Numbers 54-59 K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Safeway is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Numbers 54-59 K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Safeway
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pedestal-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Numbers 54-59 K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Safeway, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 500 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70711, -2.74133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a K6 telephone kiosk located adjacent to numbers 54-59 on Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Numbers 54-59 K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Safeway receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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