Telephone Box on Corner of Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 2004. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Box on Corner of Market Square
- WRENN ID
- sharp-string-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 2004
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Telephone Box on Corner of Market Square, Mevagissey
- OS grid reference
- SX 014 448
- Coordinates
- 50.27028, -4.788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a K6 telephone kiosk located on the corner of Market Square in Mevagissey. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, it is made of cast iron. The kiosk has a square shape with a domed roof, featuring unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing bars on the windows and door.
Local climate
Telephone Box on Corner of Market Square receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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 0.2°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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
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