K2 Telephone Kiosk Outside St Leonard's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Telephone kiosk. 12 related planning applications.
K2 Telephone Kiosk Outside St Leonard's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- white-rampart-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K2 Telephone Kiosk Outside St Leonard's Hospital, Hoxton Street N1, N1 5LH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 332 834
- Coordinates
- 51.53392, -0.08011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 1927 telephone kiosk located outside St Leonard’s Hospital in Hoxton Street. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, it is constructed of cast iron and is of the K2 type. The kiosk is square with a domed roof. It features perforated crowns on the top panel and glazing bars to the windows and door.
Local climate
K2 Telephone Kiosk Outside St Leonard's 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- Blocks A and B and façade of Relief Office at St Leonard's Hospital
- Sisters' House and School to North of Church of St Columba
- Church of St Columba
- St Columba's Vicarage, with Link to Church
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