K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gillette Building is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1990. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gillette Building

WRENN ID
shadowed-quartz-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hounslow
Constituency
Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gillette Building, Syon Road
OS grid reference
TQ 162 773
Coordinates
51.48352, -0.32687
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk located outside the Gillette Building is a Grade II listed structure. This telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a Type K6 model made by the Carron Company. It is constructed from cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels have unperforated crowns, and the windows and door are fitted with margin glazing.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gillette Building 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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