K6 Telephone Kiosk by Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1988. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk by Village Hall

WRENN ID
outer-attic-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1988
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk by Village Hall, the Green, Gestingthorpe
OS grid reference
TL 811 385
Coordinates
52.01621, 0.639
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk located by the Village Hall in Gestingthorpe is a Grade II listed structure. This kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 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.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosk by Village Hall 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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