Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1988. Telephone kiosk. 1 related planning application.
Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- peeling-oriel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Kiosk, Swanside
- OS grid reference
- TL 757 231
- Coordinates
- 51.87924, 0.55169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a telephone kiosk, known as Type K6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels have unperforated crowns, and the windows and door are fitted with margin glazing. The kiosk was produced by various contractors.
Local climate
Telephone Kiosk sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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