K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside Geffrye Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside Geffrye Museum

WRENN ID
inner-tallow-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2 8DY
OS grid reference
TQ 334 831
Coordinates
51.53126, -0.07691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk located outside the Geffrye Museum is a type designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. This 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, Outside Geffrye Museum 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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