K6 Telephone Kiosk, junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street, Marylebone

Mandeville Place (junction with Hinde Street), London, W1U 2BE

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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:: 1450491
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: K6 Telephone Kiosk, junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street, Marylebone
Statutory Address:: Mandeville Place (junction with Hinde Street), London, W1U 2BE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1450491
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: K6 Telephone Kiosk, junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street, Marylebone
Location Description:: K6 Kiosk is on Mandeville Place at the junction with Hinde Street, opposite the entrance to the Hinde Street Methodist Church.
Statutory Address 1:: Mandeville Place (junction with Hinde Street), London, W1U 2BE

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:: Mandeville Place (junction with Hinde Street), London, W1U 2BE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2837681386

Summary

K6 telephone kiosk.

Reasons for Designation

The K6 telephone kiosk at the junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as an iconic design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, one of the leading British architects of the period;

Group value:

* for its strong visual relationship with three listed buildings collectively at the junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street.

History

The K6 telephone kiosk is a milestone of C20 industrial design. It 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 (listed Grade I; National Heritage List for England 1361681) and Battersea Power Station (Grade II*; NHLE 1357620). 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 K6 kiosks 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 telephone kiosk at the junction of Mandeville Place and Hinde Street, Marylebone is a standardised K6 design. It is made of cast iron, painted red with bands of horizontal glazing in the door and sides. The crowns situated on the top panels are applied, not perforated. There are rectangular white display signs, reading TELEPHONE beneath the shallow-curved roof. The kiosk is in good overall condition, retaining all of its glazed panels. The internal equipment has been modernised. The kiosk door was replaced with a replica by BT in 2017, although this is almost identical in form to the original (with the glazed panels mounted onto a timber door, painted red).

The position of the kiosk, on the east side of Mandeville Place, is approximately 5 metres from the junction with Hinde Street (to the north). Clustered around the junction are several listed buildings: on the opposite side of Mandeville Place is the School of Economic Science building at Nos 11 and 13 (Grade II; NHLE 1248447). On the north side of the junction are 11 and 12 Hinde Street (west side, both listed Grade II; NHLE 1231139 and 1357123 respectively), and, to the east side, James Weir’s Hinde Street Methodist Church (Grade II; NHLE 1231099).

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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.