Telephone Kiosk 30 Churchtown Road Ballyculter Upper Downpatrick Co. Down BT30 7AT

A ‘K6’ telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott dating between 1936 and 1953 located on Churchtown Road in the rural hamlet of Churchtown near Strangford. The telephone kiosk manufactured at the Carron Company in Falkirk is an early K6 model indicated by the integral Tudor Crown cipher (pre-1953). The kiosk is approximately 8ft 3in/251cm high and 3ft 5in/91cm wide and has the usual cast-iron body painted red with small-paned sides and door and a shallow domed roof. Sited at the end of a footpath, alongside a Post Box, the kiosk faces NW onto Churchtown Road. The rear solid panel Elevation abuts the gable of 30 Churchtown Road. The remaining glazed elevations are now largely replaced Perspex. The upper section of each elevation displays the Tudor crown motif of the sovereign above a glazed ‘TELEPHONE’ panel. The kiosk retains its working telephone apparatus and leather door straps. Roof: Cast-iron Walling Cast-iron Window: Perspex Door: Hardwood RWG: N/A