Telephone kiosk, near 4 Riverside, Moneymore Road, Cookstown, BT80 8EH

A telephone kiosk of K6 type, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The kiosk stands near Riverside, a post-war social housing development running parallel to Moneymore Road northwest of Cookstown, and was likely installed around 1950 when the houses were completed, though it may date to any point between 1936 and the mid-1950s.

The K6 is a cast-iron structure with a timber door on the north-east elevation, complete with leather hinges and original opening mechanism. The kiosk features a domed top carried on four moulded corner posts, each set with a Tudor Crown insignia. On all four elevations except the south-east, which is blank, the word "Telephone" appears in black serif capital letters within a white-glazed rectangular panel positioned below each crown. The three glazed elevations are fitted with 8x3 glazing bars, originally single-pane glass but now replaced with Perspex.

The K6 model was designed by Scott in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. Its compact, easily mass-produced design developed earlier kiosk types—the K2 (1926) and K3 (1929)—and it proved highly successful. From 1936 onwards, approximately 60,000 K6 kiosks were distributed throughout the United Kingdom, making it the most widespread telephone kiosk type ever introduced. Many were placed under the Jubilee Concession scheme, which allowed post office towns and villages to apply for a kiosk. The design underwent a minor alteration following the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, when the Tudor crown motif was replaced with the St. Edward's crown on newly produced kiosks. From 1955, kiosks destined for Scotland used the Crown of Scotland instead, with a slot in the fascia allowing either version to be inserted into kiosks manufactured from that date onwards. The K6 remained in production until 1968, when the modernist K8, designed by Bruce Martin, was introduced.

This example is relatively well-preserved and represents an increasingly rare survival of the type.