Telephone Kiosk Opposite Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Kiosk Opposite Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-postern-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Kiosk Opposite Old Rectory, Bride Hall Lane, Ayot St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- TL 194 168
- Coordinates
- 51.83709, -0.2678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a telephone kiosk located opposite the Old Rectory in Ayot St Lawrence. It is a Type K6 kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and made by various contractors. The kiosk is constructed from 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
Telephone Kiosk Opposite Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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