K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside No 19, High Street (Purbeck Hotel) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1989. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside No 19, High Street (Purbeck Hotel)
- WRENN ID
- empty-ashlar-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1989
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside No 19, High Street (Purbeck Hotel), Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 032 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60777, -1.95557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk located outside No. 19, Purbeck Hotel on High Street in Swanage is a Grade II listed structure. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this telephone kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated Elizabeth II crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside No 19, High Street (Purbeck Hotel) receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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 0.3°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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