Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 40, West High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. Telephone kiosk.
Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 40, West High Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chalk-tallow
- 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
- Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 40, West High Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UR
- OS grid reference
- SY 689 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71484, -2.44137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of telephone kiosks, known as Type K6, is located outside number 40 on High West Street. They were designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and were manufactured by various contractors. The kiosks are made of cast iron and feature a square shape with a domed roof. They have unperforated George VI crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and doors.
Local climate
Pair of Telephone Kiosks Outside Number 40, West High 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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