K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1989. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- dusted-hinge-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, Harbour, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 209 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33111, -4.51739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk in Polperro is a Grade II listed building. This kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels have unperforated crowns, and the windows and door include margin glazing. It was produced by various contractors.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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