K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to North Side of Watch Tower Studio and Former Lifeboat Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1989. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to North Side of Watch Tower Studio and Former Lifeboat Shed
- WRENN ID
- bitter-moulding-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- SX 256 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35223, -4.45284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk, located adjacent to the north side of the Watch Tower Studio and the former lifeboat shed in East Looe, was built in 1936. This kiosk is a Type K6, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and made by various contractors. It is constructed of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels have unperforated crowns, and the windows and door have margin glazing. The door is a wooden copy.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to North Side of Watch Tower Studio and Former Lifeboat Shed 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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