K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK

K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK, HIGH STREET

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K6 telephone kiosk. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395591
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK
Statutory Address:: K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395591
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK
Statutory Address 1:: K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wylye
National Grid Reference:: SU 00741 37570

Reasons for Designation

The K6 telephone kiosk in Wylye, Wiltshire, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It has a visual relationship with three listed buildings, one of which is particularly strong * It has a contextual relationship with the building directly in front of which it stands * It stands in an exceptionally picturesque setting within the village * It is a representative example within a village setting of this important C20 industrial design

Details

WYLYE

1183/0/10005 HIGH STREET 02-NOV-10 K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK

II K6 telephone kiosk

DESCRIPTION: The K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing in the 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 intact and in fair condition, although the paint is flaking badly in some places (2009).

The kiosk is situated in what looks to be a purpose-built nook in front of the telephone exchange, at a crossroads in the southern part of this picturesque village. Immediately to the south is a small unlisted church, and across the road approximately 20m to the east stands Riverdale Cottage (Grade II). Immediately to the east of this is another cottage, also listed at Grade II ('Cottage to the South of Riverdale Cottage'). The White Cottage, also Grade II, stands on the opposite side of the road from these, approximately 50m to the south east of the kiosk.

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.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The K6 telephone kiosk in Wylye, Wiltshire, is recommended for designation at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It has a visual relationship with three listed buildings, one of which is particularly strong * It has a contextual relationship with the building directly in front of which it stands * It stands in an exceptionally picturesque setting within the village * It is a representative example within a village setting of this important C20 industrial design

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 507038
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.