Telephone Kiosk, Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, BT32 3NH is a Grade B2 listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 19 May 1988.
Telephone Kiosk, Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, BT32 3NH
- WRENN ID
- other-passage-fog
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1988
- Address
- Telephone Kiosk, Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, BT32 3NH, Bovennett, BT32 3NH
- Irish grid reference
- J 103 421
- Coordinates
- 54.31602, -6.30456
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A red telephone kiosk of type K6, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and installed between 1935 and 1953. The kiosk stands centrally in the village of Loughbrickland, adjacent to the boundary wall of St Mellans Parish Church.
The structure is cast iron throughout, painted red, with a cast-iron roof. It displays the symbolic Tudor Crown motif above the "TELEPHONE" sign on each elevation. The rear is blank. The glazing is largely replacement, though the kiosk has retained its essential external character despite repairs undertaken over time. The interior has been substantially modernised with a new telephone.
The K6 represents Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's revised design, introduced to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It is a simplified version of his earlier K2 model, reflecting the art deco and stripped classicism of the 1930s. The K2 boxes, featuring Scott's distinctive "handkerchief dome" (a device favoured by Sir John Soane), had been installed mainly in London from 1927 to 1935. The K6 was deployed across the UK and became the standard design. Changes to the crown motif in the 1950s allow this particular example to be dated between 1935 and 1953, making it an earlier model of the K6 type with distinctive detailing.
Scott's telephone box designs have become internationally iconic since their first appearance in the 1920s and 1930s. Once common throughout British towns and villages, such boxes were no longer produced after the 1980s and are now increasingly rare. The first telephone boxes appeared on British streets in 1884, but without standard design. When the Post Office took over telephone services in 1912, a single design was considered. The K1, produced by Somerville & Company in 1920, proved unsatisfactory. A competition announced in 1924 was won by Giles Gilbert Scott, son of the celebrated architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, designer of the Foreign Office and Albert Memorial. Scott himself was renowned for major commissions including Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and Bankside Power Station (now Tate Modern).
The kiosk first appears on Ordnance Survey maps of the 1960s–70s edition. It is listed Grade B2.
Local climate
Telephone Kiosk, Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, BT32 3NH receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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