Pair of K6 Telephone kiosks

A pair of K6 Telephone kiosks, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

MATERIALS: cast iron, teak, and concrete.

EXTERIOR: the K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing in the door and sides and with gilded crowns situated on the top panels being applied not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow-curved roof. They are made of cast iron sections bolted together, and stand on concrete bases. Each has a single side-hinged glazed teak entrance door.

The kiosks are in good condition and stand outside the Department for International Development on Whitehall, opposite the Old Shades public house (National Heritage List for England reference 1267004, listed at Grade II), and Whitehall House (NHLE reference 1066105, listed at Grade II). The Admiralty Screen by Robert Adam (NHLE reference 1066099, listed at Grade I) is immediately to the left (south) of the kiosks. Additionally, the kiosks have a strong visual relationship with Nelson's Column (NHLE reference 1276052, listed at Grade I), and the equestrian statue of Charles I (NHLE reference 1357291, listed at Grade I) to the north. Street views from the telephone kiosks to the south include the Houses of Parliament (NHLE reference 1226284, listed at Grade I) which rises in the far distance above a statue of the Duke of Cambridge (NHLE reference 1066108, listed at Grade II).

INTERIOR: all glass is intact; the kiosks have operational *C21 telephone equipment.

• Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest.