K6 Telephone Kiosk outside St Peter's Terrace

K6 telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

The K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing to the door and sides, and with the crowns situated on the top panels being applied not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow curved roof.

The kiosk is in good overall condition and survives well. The telephone equipment was in-situ at the time of the assessment for listing (2021).

The kiosk is located on the end of Grove Lane, at its junction with Trumpington Street. It is located in the Cambridge Historic Core Central Conservation Area, and is surrounded by listed buildings and structures on all sides. To the south it is opposite the mid-C19 1-7 St Peter’s Terrace, listed at Grade II, and the separately listed gates and railings to St Peter’s Terrace, also Grade II. To the east, opposite, are 21 Trumpington Street, a C17 timber-framed house, and numbers 13-14, 15-16, 17, 18-19, a row of Grade II listed early-C19 houses forming a historic group with each other. To the east of the K6 is a group of listed “Richardson candles” bespoke lampposts, listed at Grade II, and the runnels to Hobson’s Conduit, the historic water supply to the city, also listed at Grade II. To the immediate north-east of the kiosk is the listed Judge Business School, previously the old Addenbrooke’s hospital, converted in the 1980s in a post-modern style, and listed at Grade II*, and its separately Grade II listed gates, gatepiers and railings. Also to the north-east, outside the old Addenbrooke’s hospital, is another K6 telephone kiosk, listed at Grade II.