K6 telephone kiosk in front of Barton House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. Telephone kiosk.
K6 telephone kiosk in front of Barton House
- WRENN ID
- white-stair-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 telephone kiosk in front of Barton House, Newton, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 780 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91964, -2.31349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk located in front of Barton House is a Grade II listed structure. It was designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and manufactured by MacFarlane & Co Ltd. This cast iron kiosk features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels display unperforated George VI crowns, and the windows and door are adorned with margin glazing.
Local climate
K6 telephone kiosk in front of Barton House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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