Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Post Office Vaults is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Telephone kiosk. 1 related planning application.
Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Post Office Vaults
- WRENN ID
- scarred-cinder-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Post Office Vaults, 2 K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Post Office Vaults, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AT
- OS grid reference
- SU 398 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58846, -1.42571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two K6 telephone kiosks stand outside the Post Office Vaults. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, these kiosks are constructed of cast iron and are square in shape with a domed roof. They feature unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing to the windows and door. The kiosks were originally associated with numbers 50 and 51 Market Place.
Local climate
Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Post Office Vaults receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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