K6 Telephone Kiosk

The kiosk is a K6 type telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee. It is constructed of cast iron, painted red with long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, and features applied crowns on the top panels rather than perforated ones. Rectangular white display signs read "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof. Modern internal telephone equipment has been installed. The kiosk is intact and in very good condition, retaining all its original glass windows.

The K6 design was a development from Scott’s earlier, highly successful K2 kiosk, taking inspiration from Neo-classical architecture, but streamlining its design, making it more compact and cost-effective to mass produce. Over 70,000 were eventually built and remain an iconic feature of the British landscape.

The kiosk is situated directly next to a pond and adjacent to the village shop and post office, within an idyllic rural location surrounded by woods to the north, an open field with a pond to the west, and a cricket ground to the south. Admers Cottage, a Grade II listed building, stands approximately 75 metres to the south, beyond the cricket ground.

The kiosk’s group value lies in its contribution to the picturesque landscape setting, its contextual relationship with the nearby post office, and as a representative example of this important 20th-century industrial design within a rural setting.