Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1988. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- calm-newel-hazel
- 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, St James Street, Castle Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 355
- Coordinates
- 51.98985, 0.5992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This telephone kiosk is a 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 include 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 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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