K6 Telephone Box Outside Somerset House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Box Outside Somerset House

WRENN ID
heavy-keep-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Box Outside Somerset House, Sion Hill, BA1 2UF
OS grid reference
ST 743 660
Coordinates
51.3925, -2.37039
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone box located outside Somerset House is a Grade II listed structure. This telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof, drawing inspiration from Soanian prototypes. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Box Outside Somerset House 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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