K6 telephone kiosk, Combeinteignhead

The Old Post Office, Combeinteignhead, Devon, TQ12 4RA

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Overview

A K6 telephone kiosk, manufactured to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott after 1935. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442971
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-2017
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk, Combeinteignhead
Statutory Address:: The Old Post Office, Combeinteignhead, Devon, TQ12 4RA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442971
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-2017
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk, Combeinteignhead
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Post Office, Combeinteignhead, Devon, TQ12 4RA

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Old Post Office, Combeinteignhead, Devon, TQ12 4RA

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Haccombe with Combe
National Grid Reference:: SX9016071593

Summary

A K6 telephone kiosk, manufactured to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott after 1935.

Reasons for Designation

The K6 telephone kiosk in Combeinteignhead, Devon is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Design Interest: the K6 kiosk is recognised as an iconic design which is of intrinsic interest; * Group value: it has group value and a strong visual relationship with Brooklands (Grade II) and Bridge House (Grade II). Additionally, Little Cottage and April Cottage (both Grade II) can be seen in the same view as the kiosk, as can the tower of the parish Church of All Saints (Grade II*).

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. 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.

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 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 a new kiosk type. But many still remain, and continue to be an iconic feature on Britain's streetscapes.

Details

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. The telephone kiosk's display signs have faded, although the lettering is still legible in places, and the red paint is flaking. It retains glass windows.

The kiosk stands in Combeinteignhead Conservation Area at a cross roads and in close proximity to Brooklands (Grade II) and Bridge House (Grade II). Additionally, Little Cottage and April Cottage (both Grade II) can be seen in the same view as the kiosk, as can the tower of the parish Church of All Saints (Grade II*).

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.