K6 telephone kiosk, Wool

K6 kiosk, High Street, Wool, Dorset

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

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454418
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-2018
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk, Wool
Statutory Address:: K6 kiosk, High Street, Wool, Dorset

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454418
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-2018
List Entry Name:: K6 telephone kiosk, Wool
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: K6 kiosk, High Street, Wool, Dorset

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:: K6 kiosk, High Street, Wool, Dorset

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wool
National Grid Reference:: SY8461486541

Summary

A K6 telephone kiosk.

Reasons for Designation

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

Architectural interest: * the K6 kiosk is recognised as an iconic design which is of intrinsic interest; * it appears largely unaltered; Group value: * this telephone kiosk has a strong visual relationship with two listed buildings collectively, one of which is the 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 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

A K6 telephone kiosk.

The K6 is a standardised design made of cast iron, painted red overall with long horizontal glazing in 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 kiosk appears intact, though the display signs are a little faded. It has modern telecommunications equipment inside*. It stands on the main street through the village, in a prominent position. The kiosk stands on the opposite side of the road from the listed Burvan House, 23 and 24 High Street, formerly the post office (Grade II, NHLE 1120372); and the listed Colliers Barn, 1 & 2 High Street (Grade II, NHLE1152927). The telephone kiosk has a strong visual relationship with these two listed buildings collectively, and in addition is within the Wool Conservation Area.

* Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features - the modern telecommunications equipment - 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.