Telephone Kiosk

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Red telephone box located in front of the recently closed Tirmacoy Post Office. Embossed Crown, white telephone sign. Timber entrance door, cast iron construction. Red post box adjacent (EIIR).

The Post Office is a two storey building, rendered and painted. Natural slate roof. Timber painted sign above ground floor windows: ‘S Townley, General Merchant’. On the ground floor are a panelled, painted door with large shop window adjacent (now covered in timber shutters). On the first floor are three equally spaced two pane sash windows. The central window is covered by a painted timber board. The building faces north onto Tirmacoy Road. To the east is a storey and a half barn painted as the Post Office but with corrugated metal roof. To the west a two storey three bay house with pebble dash finish, natural slate roof (slightly higher than that of the Post Office) and two ground floor canted bay windows projecting into a garden between it and the road.

Historical information

Kiosk number six designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and in production from 1936 to 1968. Buildings first indicated on the 1848 Ordnance Survey Map.

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Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A picturesque composition of phone box and shop. Probably will disappear soon as the shopkeeper is ill and is unlikely to re-open. The shop is a simple composition once common but rapidly disappearing under modern signage. The kiosk adds to the quality of its surroundings but as the ‘number 6’ was the kiosk longest in production, it is not sufficiently rare to list. Kiosk and store are of local historical interest as they have served the community for a large number of years.