K6 Telephone Box Outside No 1 Kensington Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Box Outside No 1 Kensington Place
- WRENN ID
- keen-ledge-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Box Outside No 1 Kensington Place, BA1 6AW
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 659
- Coordinates
- 51.39239, -2.35088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone box outside No. 1 Kensington Place is a telephone kiosk dating from around 1935, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It is made of cast iron and is a standard K6 or 'Jubilee kiosk', produced by various manufacturers. The box features three glazed sides with eight horizontal panels and margin glazing, with one side functioning as the door. The fourth side is solid to accommodate telephone equipment. At the top, there is a shallow dome with a crown and the word 'TELEPHONE' displayed in opal lettering.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Box Outside No 1 Kensington Place receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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