K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 2011. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- empty-outpost-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 2011
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street, Lowick
- OS grid reference
- SP 950 793
- Coordinates
- 52.40348, -0.60404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The K6 telephone kiosk is a standardised design constructed of painted red cast iron, dating from 1935. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the General Post Office to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee, it developed from his earlier K2 design, offering a more streamlined, compact, and cost-effective mass production model. The design features long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, with applied crowns on the top panels, and rectangular white display signs reading “TELEPHONE” beneath the shallow-curved roof. Modern internal equipment has been installed, but the kiosk remains in good repair and retains its glass windows. It is situated on Main Street in a central village position, opposite the Grade II listed Bakehouse Cottage and visible from Chestnut Cottage and Grange Farmhouse, with which it shares a strong visual relationship collectively. The K6 telephone kiosk represents a considered adaptation of architectural tradition to meet contemporary technological needs, and over 70,000 were produced before being largely replaced in the 1960s. It is designated at Group Value Grade II for its iconic 20th-century design and its important visual relationship with other listed buildings.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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