Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Market House, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1988. Telephone kiosk. 8 related planning applications.
Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Market House, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- endless-rubble-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1988
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- Address
- Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Market House, Fore Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01466, -3.10266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two K6 telephone kiosks are located outside The Market House on Fore Street. These kiosks were designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and made by various contractors. They are constructed of cast iron and have a square shape with domed roofs. The top panels feature unperforated crowns, and the windows and doors have margin glazing. Notably, the right-hand kiosk displays a mixture of George VI and Elizabeth II crowns, which are all original.
Local climate
Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside the Market House, Fore Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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