K6 Telephone Kiosk

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Albury Street

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Overview

K6 telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott 1935. Three sides have wide, horizontal glass panels with narrow margin lights to each, the fourth side is solid. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393213
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-2009
List Entry Name:: K6 Telephone Kiosk
Statutory Address:: K6 Telephone Kiosk, Albury Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393213
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-2009
List Entry Name:: K6 Telephone Kiosk
Statutory Address 1:: K6 Telephone Kiosk, Albury Street

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: K6 Telephone Kiosk, Albury Street

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Albury
National Grid Reference:: TQ0496447833

Reasons for Designation

The K6 telephone kiosk in Albury is designated at Grade II for the following principal reason: * It has group value with two listed buildings of the mid C19 on the same street, which were built when Albury was an estate village.

Details

431/0/10042 23-MAR-09

ALBURY ALBURY STREET K6 Telephone Kiosk

GV II

K6 telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott 1935. Three sides have wide, horizontal glass panels with narrow margin lights to each, the fourth side is solid.

DESCRIPTION The K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing in door and sides and with the crowns situated on the top panels being applied not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow-curved roof. It has modernised internal equipment. It is in good condition with the exception of a small amount of flaking paint on one side.

It stands on a grass verge at the side of the road, within the Albury Conservation Area. There are two grade II listed buildings in the vicinity of the kiosk - Weston Dene, a Gothic style house of c1860, and a row of former shops (now houses) of mid-C19 date in a vernacular tradition with tall chimneys - both are significant to Albury's evolution as an estate village. The kiosk is not immediately opposite the listed buildings, but they are all on the same street and there is a clear visual relationship.

HISTORY The K6 telephone kiosk is a milestone of C20 industrial design. The K6 was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 for the General Post Office, on the occasion of King George V's Silver Jubilee. The K6 was a development from his earlier highly successful K2 telephone kiosk design of 1924, of Neo-classical inspiration. The K6 was more streamlined aesthetically, more compact and more cost-effective to mass produce. Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) was one of the most important of modern British architects; his many celebrated commissions include the Anglican cathedral of Liverpool and Battersea power station. The K2 and K6 telephone kiosks can be said to represent a very thoughtful adaptation of architectural tradition to contemporary technological requirements. Well over 70,000 K6s were eventually produced. In the 1960s many were replaced with far plainer kiosk types. But many still remain, and continue to be an iconic feature on Britain's streetscapes.

The village of Albury was originally located slightly to the east of its present site. It was moved in the late C18 while Captain Finch was expanding his estate of Albury Park. Albury village took over the site of the hamlet of Weston Street. During the early-mid C19, the successor of Albury Park, Henry Drummond, consequently moulded Albury into an informal estate village. Most of the architecture on The Street, which is where the kiosk is located, relates to Drummond's mid C19 redevelopment.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The K6 telephone kiosk in Albury is designated at Grade II for the following principal reason: * It has group value with two listed buildings of the mid C19 on the same street, which were built when Albury was an estate village.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 505278
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.