K6 Telephone Box
K6 TELEPHONE BOX, RED LION SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391856
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2007
- List Entry Name:
- K6 Telephone Box
- Statutory Address:
- K6 TELEPHONE BOX, RED LION SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391856
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2007
- List Entry Name:
- K6 Telephone Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- K6 TELEPHONE BOX, RED LION SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- K6 TELEPHONE BOX, RED LION SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hythe
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 15884 34708
Details
HYTHE
687/0/10002 RED LION SQUARE
07-FEB-07 K6 Telephone Box
II
BUILDING: K6 telephone box
DATE: The K6 was designed in 1935; the date of this example is not known.
ARCHITECT: Giles Gilbert Scott
MATERIALS: Cast iron, glass
EXTERIOR: The K6 kiosk was a development on Scott's 1924 K2 design. It has two glazed sides and a glazed door, all with narrow panes either side of a wider central panel of horizontal panes, beneath a domical roof. In the segmental upper structure on each side is a relief crown, placed above a glazed panel bearing the word TELEPHONE.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The archetypal K6 telephone kiosk was designed by the eminent architect Giles Gilbert Scott (of Battersea Power Station and Liverpool Cathedral fame) in 1935 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, and was a development on Scott's 1924 K2 design. It is of special interest for the quality of the architectural design as applied to an industrially produced object of mass communication. Some 70,000 K6s were ultimately produced. This intact K6 telephone kiosk stands in a prominent position on the corner of Red Lion Square where it makes a significant contribution to its setting. It lies within a conservation area, and has a strong visual relationship with three Grade II listed buildings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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