K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to the Sun Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1989. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to the Sun Public House
- WRENN ID
- pale-thatch-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- TL 970 251
- Coordinates
- 51.88996, 0.86254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, located adjacent to The Sun Public House on Lexden Road, is a Grade II listed structure. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this telephone kiosk 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. It was produced by various contractors.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to the Sun Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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