K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction with Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1990. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction with Tower Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-threshold-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1990
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction with Tower Street, W, Broad Street, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 629 994
- Coordinates
- 50.79082, -1.10827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, located at the junction with Tower Street on Broad Street in Portsmouth, is a Grade II listed structure. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this telephone kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated George VI crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction with Tower Street receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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