K6 Telephone Kiosk North of Portland Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. A 20th century Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk North of Portland Terrace
- WRENN ID
- sacred-minaret-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Period
- 20th century
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk North of Portland Terrace, Torhill Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 911 642
- Coordinates
- 50.46798, -3.53478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a K6 telephone kiosk located north of Portland Terrace in Torquay. It was designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and is made of cast iron. The kiosk has a square shape with a domed roof. The top panels feature unperforated crowns, and the windows and door have margin glazing.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk North of Portland Terrace receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% 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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