K6 telephone kiosk, Barnsley
Barnsley, Gloucestershire, GL7 5EE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1492212
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2025
- List Entry Name:
- K6 telephone kiosk, Barnsley
- Statutory Address:
- Barnsley, Gloucestershire, GL7 5EE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1492212
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2025
- List Entry Name:
- K6 telephone kiosk, Barnsley
- Statutory Address 1:
- Barnsley, Gloucestershire, GL7 5EE
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
- Statutory Address:
- Barnsley, Gloucestershire, GL7 5EE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0766505041
Summary
A K6 telephone kiosk, to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, dating from after 1935.
Reasons for Designation
The K6 telephone kiosk at Barnsley is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* despite the replacement of much of its glazing it survives as an iconic example of industrial design, showing Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's adaptation of neoclassical forms for a modern technological function.
Historic interest:
* for its contribution to the streetscape and its strong visual and contextual relationship with a number of listed buildings nearby.
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.
The kiosk in Barnsley stands on a side road to the east of the main B4425 through the village.
Details
A K6 telephone kiosk, to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, dating from after 1935.
DESCRIPTION
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. About half of the kioskās glazing has been replaced in polycarbonate.
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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