K6 Telephone Kiosk

The K6 telephone kiosk is a standardised design from 1935, made of cast iron and painted red overall. It features long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, with applied crowns on the top panels rather than perforated ones. Rectangular white display signs, reading "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof, are present. The interior contains modernised equipment. The kiosk is in poor condition, with three windows and one white display sign missing, and remaining glass windows badly faded.

Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee, the K6 was a refinement of his earlier K2 telephone kiosk, representing a more streamlined, compact, and cost-effective design. Giles Gilbert Scott was a significant British architect, responsible for landmarks such as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station. The K6 and K2 kiosks demonstrate a considered adaptation of architectural tradition to modern technological needs, with over 10,000 K6s manufactured before many were replaced in the 1960s.

The kiosk stands on a small green near Chestnut Villas, a row of listed houses approximately 8 metres to the south. Opposite the street, approximately 20 metres to the northwest, is the Grade II listed Royal Oak Public House. On the north side of the pub is 15 The Street (also Grade II listed), and the kiosk has a visual relationship with all three listed buildings due to its prominent location on the village green.

The K6 telephone kiosk is designated at Grade II for its strong visual relationship with three other listed buildings and as a representative example of this important 20th-century industrial design.