K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside County Hall One of A Pair This One Is the Nearer to the County Hall Island Block is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Telephone kiosk. 5 related planning applications.

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside County Hall One of A Pair This One Is the Nearer to the County Hall Island Block

WRENN ID
brooding-railing-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lambeth
Constituency
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside County Hall One of A Pair This One Is the Nearer to the County Hall Island Block, Westminster Bridge Road
OS grid reference
TQ 306 796
Coordinates
51.50091, -0.11864
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk, located outside County Hall, is one of a pair, with this one being closer to the County Hall Island Block. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the 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 County Hall One of A Pair This One Is the Nearer to the County Hall Island Block 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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