K6 Telephone Kiosk (Near Forge House) is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1989. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk (Near Forge House)
- WRENN ID
- riven-brass-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk (Near Forge House), Harborough Hall Road, Messing-Cum-Inworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 897 189
- Coordinates
- 51.83695, 0.7529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
K6 Telephone Kiosk near Forge House is a Grade II listed telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. This type K6 kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk (Near Forge House) 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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