K6 Telephone Kiosk at Lippitts Hill Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2003. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk at Lippitts Hill Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site
- WRENN ID
- shifting-rotunda-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2003
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk at Lippitts Hill Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site, Metropolitan Police Cadet Training Centre, Loughton, Essex, Waltham Abbey, IG10 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 397 970
- Coordinates
- 51.65486, 0.01933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk at Lippitts Hill Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site is a standard design made of cast iron, typically painted red, although this particular example is grey-green. It features long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, with crowns on the top panels that are applied rather than perforated. There are rectangular white display signs reading "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof. The kiosk has modern internal telephony equipment, which is not considered of special interest and is excluded from the listing.
The display signs above the doors are clearly visible, but the green paint is peeling in places, revealing red underneath. The kiosk mainly retains its glass window panels, although some side panels have been replaced with Perspex. It is located adjacent to the south corner of the Spider Block, 27 meters south-west of the Mess Block, and 40 meters from the Commander's Office, all of which are listed at Grade II. The kiosk has a strong visual relationship with these three listed buildings.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk at Lippitts Hill Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Site 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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