K6 Telephone Kiosk Facing Nos 1 and 3 (The Royal Saracen's Head Public House) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1988. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk Facing Nos 1 and 3 (The Royal Saracen's Head Public House)
- WRENN ID
- north-bracket-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Facing Nos 1 and 3 (The Royal Saracen's Head Public House), Windsor End, Beaconsfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 945 900
- Coordinates
- 51.60138, -0.63634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BUILDING: K6 Telephone Kiosk
DATE: The K6 design dates from 1935, although the precise date of this particular kiosk is unknown.
ARCHITECT: Giles Gilbert Scott
MATERIALS: Cast iron, glass
DESCRIPTION: This K6 kiosk is a development of Giles Gilbert Scott’s earlier 1924 K2 design. It is constructed of cast iron with glazed door and sides, set beneath a domical roof. Narrow panes are positioned on either side of the horizontal glazing. Each side of the upper, segmental structure features a relief crown above a glazed panel displaying the word "TELEPHONE."
HISTORY: Originally located outside Beaconsfield Magistrates Court, this K6 kiosk was moved under listed building consent in May 2005 during an Environmental Improvement project. It was relocated to a newly paved area facing numbers 1 and 3, the Royal Saracen's Head Public House, on Windsor End. The kiosk was listed on 2nd June 1988 and was formerly listed as being located adjoining Beaconsfield Magistrates Court (which is now excluded from the listing).
SIGNIFICANCE: The K6 telephone kiosk is a well-known and archetypal design by the eminent architect Giles Gilbert Scott, commemorating the Silver Jubilee of King George V. Approximately 70,000 of these kiosks were produced. Its Neoclassical design, influenced by the work of Sir John Soane, is notable for the quality of architectural design applied to an industrially produced object created for mass communication.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk Facing Nos 1 and 3 (The Royal Saracen's Head Public House) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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