K6 telephone kiosk, Austwick

The K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing in the door and sides and with the crowns situated on the top panels being applied not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow-curved roof. The Austwick telephone kiosk is complete, but with modernised internal equipment.

The telephone kiosk is sited at the triangular green and road junction forming the centre of the small village of Austwick. It is on the north side of the western exit from The Green, directly across the road from the Grade II-listed Church of the Epiphany and overlooked by the Grade II-listed Market Cross sited at the middle of The Green. The current post office lies just over 40m to the east, sited on the northern exit from The Green. This building is unlisted, however the original post office, which occupied the Grade II-listed Ivy Cottage is a further 20m distant, within sight of the telephone kiosk. Also within sight of the telephone kiosk is the Grade II-listed Sunny Bank, a house on the south eastern entrance to The Green. The telephone kiosk makes a strong contribution to the streetscape in relation to all of these listed buildings from all three approach roads to The Green, the triangular junction forming the heart of the village.