Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Telephone kiosk
Randalstown, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Telephone Kiosk
- Date of listing
- 10 November 1989
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Telephone kiosk, outside the Post Office, 15-19 Main Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Randalstown
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.74986, -6.31928
- Date of survey
- 04 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB20/04/052
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A telephone kiosk of K6 type, manufactured in cast iron, with small-paned sides and door, and a shallow domical roof.
SETTING: It stands on the pavement just outside the post office (HB20/04/017) in the main street of the town.
Historical information
An example of the K6 or 'Jubilee' telephone kiosk, originally designed in 1935 by the English architect Giles Gilbert Scott, which came into production in 1936 when the type was first introduced across the United Kingdom. Precise date of installation in Randalstown not known.
References – Secondary Sources
1. P. White, 'Telephone Kiosks', English Heritage Conservation Bulletin, issue 2, London, June 1987, p 12.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Z. Rarity
V. Authorship
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
An example of a pre-2nd World War model of telephone kiosk of a type which was designed by an important English architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, but which has been generally replaced by more recent models and is therefore now comparatively rare.
Nearby in the register
- 15-19 Main StreetPost Office - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 21 MAIN ST.PUBLIC HOUSEunder 1 mi
- 34-40 Main StreetDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 14-20 Main StreetShop - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.