K6 telephone kiosk adjacent to the former Fletching Post Office, High Street, Fletching

Alleyway immediately South of Fletching Stores, Fletching, Uckfield, TN22 3SS

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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:: 1444553
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-2017
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk adjacent to the former Fletching Post Office, High Street, Fletching
Statutory Address:: Alleyway immediately South of Fletching Stores, Fletching, Uckfield, TN22 3SS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1444553
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-2017
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk adjacent to the former Fletching Post Office, High Street, Fletching
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: Alleyway immediately South of Fletching Stores, Fletching, Uckfield, TN22 3SS

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:: Alleyway immediately South of Fletching Stores, Fletching, Uckfield, TN22 3SS

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Wealden (District Authority)
Parish:: Fletching
National Grid Reference:: TQ4286623517

Summary

K6 telephone kiosk.

Reasons for Designation

The K6 telephone kiosk, High Street, Fletching is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as an iconic example of C20 industrial design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott; * Context: with a strong contextual relationship with the Grade II-listed former post office.

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 neoclassical 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.

The K6 kiosk is on the High Street in the historic core of Fletching, where a cluster of listed buildings are located. The kiosk is set back from the road in a passage between two listed buildings, one being the former post office (the village shop in 2017) with which the kiosk has a contextual relationship. On the E side of the High Street, opposite the kiosk, are a C17 building subdivided into three cottages (NHLE 1028429, Grade II) and Churchgate Cottage (NHLE 1191527, Grade II). The K6 appears intact, but has modernised internal equipment*.

* Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest.

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