K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gates to Hms Drake is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1990. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gates to Hms Drake

WRENN ID
drifting-alcove-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 March 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gates to Hms Drake, Saltash Road, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 450 567
Coordinates
50.39051, -4.18118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk located outside the gates to HMS Drake is a Grade II listed structure. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, this kiosk is made of cast iron and features a square shape with a domed roof. It has unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and door. The kiosk was produced by various contractors.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Gates to Hms Drake sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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