King George VI K6 Telephone Kiosk (Outside Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1987. Telephone kiosk.
King George VI K6 Telephone Kiosk (Outside Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- patient-clay-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1987
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- King George VI K6 Telephone Kiosk (Outside Post Office), the Street, Lynsted with Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 942 607
- Coordinates
- 51.3128, 0.78625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a King George VI K6 telephone kiosk, dating from around 1936, located outside the post office in Lynsted. It is made of cast iron and features glazed panels with marginal glazing bars on three sides. The kiosk is equipped with leather and metal pintle hinges. It has a domed top with the word "telephone" displayed on panels on all four sides, along with the Crown of George VI.
Local climate
King George VI K6 Telephone Kiosk (Outside Post Office) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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