K8 telephone kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 2025. A Post-war Telephone kiosk.
K8 telephone kiosk
- WRENN ID
- muted-cellar-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 2025
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K8 telephone kiosk, Junction of Aldridge Way and Fairies Drive, Lone Pine Park, Ferndown, Ferndown Town, BH22 8NN
- OS grid reference
- SZ 085 992
- Coordinates
- 50.79297, -1.87963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K8 telephone kiosk, designed by Bruce Martin and introduced in 1968, is a notable example of mid-20th century design. It is made up of six cast iron parts and features an aluminium door. The door and two sides of the kiosk are fitted with large rectangular sheets of toughened glass that are set in frames with rounded corners. The fourth side has a solid panel within a frame. The kiosk has a square plan and a flat roof dome, which is also glazed with toughened glass on all four sides, featuring rectangular panes with rounded corners. Three of these panes are clear glass, while the front panel displays the words ‘FERNDOWN 2685’ in black lettering, suggesting that it originally would have included the word 'TELEPHONE'. The kiosk is painted red.
Local climate
K8 telephone kiosk receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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