Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 30 Kensington Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1987. Telephone kiosks. 1 related planning application.
Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 30 Kensington Church Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-string-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1987
- Type
- Telephone kiosks
- Address
- Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 30 Kensington Church Street, W8 4LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50386, -0.19189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of telephone kiosks stand outside number 30 Kensington Church Street. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, these are Type K6 kiosks, constructed from cast iron. They are square in plan with domed roofs. The kiosks feature unperforated crowns to the top panels and margin glazing in the windows and doors. Various contractors were involved in their manufacture.
Local climate
Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 30 Kensington Church Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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