Pair of K2 Telephone Kiosks Outside Hackney Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Telephone kiosk.

Pair of K2 Telephone Kiosks Outside Hackney Hospital

WRENN ID
gaunt-granite-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Pair of K2 Telephone Kiosks Outside Hackney Hospital, Homerton High Street
OS grid reference
TQ 359 851
Coordinates
51.54869, -0.04053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of K2 telephone kiosks, dating from 1927, are located outside Hackney Hospital on Homerton High Street. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, these square kiosks are made of cast iron and feature domed roofs, perforated crowns on the top panels, and glazing bars on the windows and doors.

Local climate

Pair of K2 Telephone Kiosks Outside Hackney Hospital 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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