K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 2009. A C20 Kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-vault-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 2009
- Type
- Kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, the Street, Sutton, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 979 153
- Coordinates
- 50.92941, -0.60703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a K6 telephone kiosk, dating from 1935. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee, the K6 was a development of his earlier K2 design, incorporating a more streamlined aesthetic and improved mass production capabilities. It’s constructed from cast iron and glass, painted red with long horizontal glazing in the door and sides. The crowns on the top panels are applied, rather than perforated. Rectangular white display signs read "TELEPHONE" beneath the shallow-curved roof. The kiosk is currently in use as a functioning telephone kiosk, containing modernised internal equipment. A British Telecom survey reported that it is in fair condition, retaining all original glass windows.
The kiosk is situated adjacent to the Grade II listed building at No. 500 The Street, and forms a visual grouping with the nearby Forge House, which is also Grade II listed. It is located within a conservation area. Local accounts suggest a telephone box has been present in the village since the 1930s, originally located outside a former shop, with the present K6 kiosk moving to its current position in the 1960s.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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