Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Former Post Office
TWO K6 TELEPHONE KIOSKS OUTSIDE FORMER POST OFFICE, THE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393703
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Former Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- TWO K6 TELEPHONE KIOSKS OUTSIDE FORMER POST OFFICE, THE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393703
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Two K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Former Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- TWO K6 TELEPHONE KIOSKS OUTSIDE FORMER POST OFFICE, THE GROVE
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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:
- TWO K6 TELEPHONE KIOSKS OUTSIDE FORMER POST OFFICE, THE GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Gravesham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 65022 74029, TQ 65023 74031
Reasons for Designation
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Details
GRAVESEND
742/0/10016 THE GROVE
05-MAR-10 Two K6 Telephone Kiosks outside Former
Post Office
GV II
Pair of K6 telephone kiosks
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. These kiosks have modernised internal equipment.
The kiosks are in good condition, situated within the immediate vicinity of the Grade II listed former post office. Although the kiosks stand before the less architecturally interesting, mid C20, extension to the building, they nevertheless form part of a significant view as one looks north along The Grove. The view is framed by the 146 Milton Road and the former post office (both listed Grade II) and is terminated by the Grade II listed clock tower and the Grade II listed Berkley Crescent.
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.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION
The pair of K6 telephone kiosks on The Grove, Gravesend, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Setting: the telephone kiosks have are within the immediate vicinity of the Grade II listed former post office.
* Setting: the telephone kiosks form part of a characterful view along The Grove, which includes a number of listed buildings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 507421
- 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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