Telephone Kiosk outside 4 Obre Avenue, Clontylew Road, Portadown BT62 1RT

A square plan, freestanding K6 telephone kiosk of cast iron construction, painted red with glazing to three of the elevations and a solid panel to the fourth (NE). Built to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's standardised design of 1935, the kiosk is located in front of No.4 Obre Avenue, Clontilew Road, Tartaraghan, a small hamlet in The Birches, south of Lough Neagh. It appears at this location between the maps of 1954 and 1964. An 8ft high, 3ft wide symmetrical structure of cast iron sections bolted together, sitting on a concrete base with a shallow, cast-iron domed roof carried on moulded pediments. The panels beneath the roof have cream-coloured opaque glass rectangular signs reading ‘Telephone’ (NW and SW sides are faded, NE and SE have been replaced) and are surmounted by a raised crown moulding (the St Edward's Crown introduced post 1953) on each of the four elevations. SE and NW sides are infilled with margin-paned replacement perspex panels with the exception of two middle panels on the SW side which have been infilled with painted plywood. The NE (rear) side has a blank back panel and foundry plate beneath (unable to read due to over-painting, however other kiosks of this era were manufactured by the Saracen Foundry, Glasgow). Setting The telephone kiosk is located on a grass verge in front of No.4 Obre Avenue, which is in a row of other similar houses facing onto Clontylew Road, Tartaraghan. The rear of the kiosk faces towards the houses. It is located to the south of Lawson’s Bar (HB14/01/007), now called ‘The Head o the road’. Materials Roof: Cast-iron RWG: None Walling: Cast-iron, painted Windows: Replacement perspex