K6 Telephone Kiosk to South West of Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk to South West of Post Office
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bronze-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk to South West of Post Office, Altarnun
- OS grid reference
- SX 223 812
- Coordinates
- 50.60357, -4.51163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, located to the southwest of the Post Office in Altarnun, is a Grade II listed structure designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. This kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and doors. The kiosk was produced by various contractors.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk to South West of Post Office 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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