K6 Telephone Kiosk adjacent to 6 Duke Street, Chelmsford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409553
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-2012
- List Entry Name:
- K6 Telephone Kiosk adjacent to 6 Duke Street, Chelmsford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409553
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-2012
- List Entry Name:
- K6 Telephone Kiosk adjacent to 6 Duke Street, Chelmsford
- Location Description:
- Adjacent to 6 Duke Street, Chelmsford, Essex.
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7077906915
Summary
A K6 telephone kiosk, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 for the General Post Office,
Reasons for Designation
The K6 telephone kiosk adjacent to 6 Duke St, Chelmsford is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Group Value: for its a strong visual relationship with three listed buildings two of which are adjacent and the other which is opposite.
* Design interest: as an iconic feature of the C20 by Giles Gilbert Scott.
History
The K6 telephone kiosk is a milestone of C20 industrial design. The K6 was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 for the General Post Office, on the occasion of King George V's Silver Jubilee. It was a development from his earlier highly successful, Neo-classical, K2 telephone kiosk of 1924. The K6 was more streamlined aesthetically, more compact and more cost-effective to mass produce. Sir 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 represent a very thoughtful adaptation of architectural tradition to contemporary technological requirements: well over 70,000 K6's were eventually produced. In the1960's many were replaced with the new kiosk type, but many still remain, and continue to be an iconic feature on Britain's streetscapes.
Details
A K6 telephone kiosk, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It is a standard design made of cast-iron, with long horizontal glazing in the door and sides, and with crowns, situated on the top panels, applied not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow-curved roof. The kiosk is painted in the standard colour of Post Office Red 539, which was selected to match the colour of Post Office letter boxes.
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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