What is recorded here
Dornoch, Castle Street, K6 Telephone Kiosks are 1935 red boxes still standing on the Highland edge. They turned strange distance into immediate speech, pulling far people into the same breath at once. Castle Street has probably heard a thousand urgent voices through those small doors, each one believing the other could still hear them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dornoch, Castle Street, K6 Telephone Kiosks as Telephone Box(s) (20th Century) (1935). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Dornoch, Castle Street, K6 Telephone Kiosks were built in 1935 as part of the General Post Office's standard K6 telephone kiosk design. They are remembered as an example of early 20th-century telecommunications infrastructure and a distinctive piece of British design heritage.
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