Telephone Kiosk in Front of Old Butter Market is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1999. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Kiosk in Front of Old Butter Market

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1999
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Kiosk in Front of Old Butter Market, Tywardreath and Par
OS grid reference
SX 085 543
Coordinates
50.35764, -4.69268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This telephone kiosk, known as Type K6, was designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It 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. The kiosk is located in front of the Old Butter Market.

Local climate

Telephone Kiosk in Front of Old Butter Market sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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