K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Canterbury Road is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 2005. Kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Canterbury Road
- WRENN ID
- broken-finial-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 2005
- Type
- Kiosk
- OS grid reference
- TR 182 683
- Coordinates
- 51.37263, 1.13477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 to commemorate the jubilee of King George V, is made of cast iron and painted red. It features long horizontal glazing in the door and two other sides, and has unperforated crowns on the top panels. This kiosk is located within a conservation area, has group value with a listed building, and serves as a prominent landmark in an open green space by the seaside.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Canterbury Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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