Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 7AF is a Grade B2 listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 17 May 1990. 1 related planning application.
Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 7AF
- WRENN ID
- floating-marble-moss
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1990
- Address
- Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 7AF, BT38 7AF
- Irish grid reference
- J 414 874
- Coordinates
- 54.71537, -5.80589
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The building is a freestanding cast-iron K6 Telephone kiosk, erected around 1940, based on designs by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and located on the north side of High Street in the centre of Carrickfergus. This is an earlier K6 model, identifiable by the Tudor crown cipher, which was later replaced by the St Edwards Crown from 1952. The kiosk retains much of its original fabric and remains in use.
The kiosk is square in plan and faces west. The cast-iron frame is painted and contains plain glass with margin lights and horizontal glazing bars to all sides except the east, which is blank. The base of the east elevation bears an embossed foundry mark reading “Garden[?] Company / Stirlingshire.” The north side provides the entrance, with a stainless steel handle. The kiosk is topped by a frieze with illuminated signage reading “TELEPHONE,” a central Tudor crown cipher, and a segmental-arched-headed domed roof.
The K6 model was designed in 1936 to celebrate the silver jubilee of King George V, following a competition for a kiosk design more suitable for London than previous designs. The kiosk is situated within the Carrickfergus conservation area and contributes positively to the area's character.
Local climate
Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 7AF sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- No flood data for this area
- 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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