Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2010. Telephone kiosk.
Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter
- WRENN ID
- lunar-porch-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2010
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter, Sidney Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 450 585
- Coordinates
- 52.20587, 0.12074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The listing describes a pair of K6 telephone kiosks located on the west side of Sidney Street, Cambridge, approximately 35 metres south of its junction with Market Street, and adjacent to Holy Trinity Church (designated at Grade B). These kiosks are a standardised design constructed from cast iron and painted red, featuring long horizontal glazing in the doors and sides, with applied crowns on the top panels. They display rectangular white signs reading "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof and contain modernised internal equipment. Both kiosks are in generally fair repair and retain all their original glass panes.
The K6 kiosks were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V’s Silver Jubilee. They evolved from his earlier K2 design and were intended to be more streamlined, compact, and cost-effective to mass produce. Over 70,000 K6 kiosks were eventually manufactured, becoming an iconic feature of British streetscapes.
The kiosks have a notable visual relationship with other designated buildings, including the churchyard railings and numbers 1 and 2 Market Street, located approximately 55 metres north. They are designated at Grade II, partly due to this strong visual relationship and their contribution to the character of the area.
Local climate
Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Holy Trinity War Memorial Shelter sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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