Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Adjacent to Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. Telephone kiosk.

Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Adjacent to Public Library

WRENN ID
pale-pediment-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 October 1987
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
SD 196 694
Coordinates
54.11455, -3.23137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pair of K6 telephone kiosks located adjacent to the Public Library in Barrow in Furness. Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, these kiosks are square in shape and feature domed roofs. They have unperforated crowns on the top panels and margin glazing on the windows and doors. The kiosks were made by various contractors.

Local climate

Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Adjacent to Public Library sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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