K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office, Cheap Street 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 Outside Post Office, Cheap Street
- WRENN ID
- night-wattle-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office, Cheap Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94869, -2.5162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk located outside the post office on Cheap Street in Sherborne is a Grade II listed structure. This kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was manufactured by Lion Foundry. It is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels display unperforated replacement Elizabeth II crowns, and the windows and door have margin glazing.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office, Cheap Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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