Telephone Kiosk

TELEPHONE KIOSK, RED LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391891
Date first listed:
22-Feb-2007
List Entry Name:
Telephone Kiosk
Statutory Address:
TELEPHONE KIOSK, RED LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391891
Date first listed:
22-Feb-2007
List Entry Name:
Telephone Kiosk
Statutory Address 1:
TELEPHONE KIOSK, RED LANE

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TELEPHONE KIOSK, RED LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
West Sussex
District:
Horsham (District Authority)
Parish:
Shipley
National Grid Reference:
TQ 14438 21903

Details

SHIPLEY

965/0/10060 RED LANE
22-FEB-07 (West side)
Telephone Kiosk

GV 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 on the third side 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 K6 telephone kiosk stands at the heart of the small village of Shipley, where it makes a significant contribution to its setting. It lies within a conservation area, and has a strong visual relationship with two Grade II listed buildings and more remote visual relationship with a Grade II* windmill.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
495322
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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