K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Hertford Library to Right of Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1988. A Modern Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Hertford Library to Right of Entrance
- WRENN ID
- iron-string-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Hertford Library to Right of Entrance, Old Cross
- OS grid reference
- TL 324 126
- Coordinates
- 51.79721, -0.08035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk located outside Hertford Library to the right of the entrance is a Grade II listed structure. This kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is part of the 'Jubilee' pattern. It is made of cast iron and features a timber door, presenting a square shape with a low domed roof. The sides and doors are adorned with margin glazing, and there are telephone 'opals' positioned above the door and on the sides, complemented by unperforated crown motifs above.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Hertford Library to Right of Entrance sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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