K6 Telephone Kiosk is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 April 2007. Telephone kiosk.
K6 Telephone Kiosk
- WRENN ID
- fossil-mullion-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 April 2007
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- NM 540 219
- Coordinates
- 56.32587, -5.98024
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The K6 Telephone Kiosk, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced from 1936 to 1968, is a standard telephone kiosk featuring three sides of lying-pane glazing with eight panes high. It includes narrow margin lights, and one glazed side has a cup handle aligned with the fourth and fifth panes, which forms the door. The rear has a blind cast-iron panel that holds the telephone and a shelf. Each side displays a rectangular glass opal with the word "TELEPHONE" in black lettering, a vent below, and a central embossed crown on top. The kiosk rises into four segmental-headed pediments that culminate in a saucer dome. It is made of cast iron and painted in Post Office red, and is located next to a waterfall on the road leading to Carsaig Pier.
Local climate
K6 Telephone Kiosk sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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