K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2009. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- rooted-remnant-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2009
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside Anchor Inn, Dawlish
- OS grid reference
- SX 975 806
- Coordinates
- 50.61685, -3.44881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red and featuring long horizontal glazing in the door and sides. Applied crowns are located on the top panels, and rectangular white display signs read "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof. The interior contains modernised equipment. The kiosk is intact and in good condition.
Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 for the General Post Office to mark King George V’s Silver Jubilee, the K6 was a development of his earlier K2 design of 1924, offering a more streamlined, compact, and cost-effective solution for mass production. It represents a thoughtful adaptation of architectural tradition to contemporary technological needs, with over 70,000 eventually produced.
The kiosk is situated on the waterfront in Cockwood, near the mouth of the River Exe, directly in front of the Anchor Inn (Grade II). Rock Cottage (Grade II) stands further along the waterfront to the east. It is designated at Grade II for its strong visual relationship with listed buildings, its setting of exceptional special interest, and as a representative example of this important 20th century industrial design within a waterside location.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% 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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