This iconic phone box in Kensington could be yours – if you have £45,000 to spare

Purchase a chunk of Historic England for a similar worth as a two bed room home in Shildon (Image: Triangle Information/Google)

Ever fancied dwelling in a telephone field and being neighbours with the royals on the identical time? 

Seems you possibly can – when you can afford to splash £45,000 on the enduring crimson kiosk everyone knows too properly in upmarket Kensington, London.

It’s in shut proximity to Prince William and Kate’s residence Kensington Palace and in addition only a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace.

Priced at greater than a two-bed in Britain’s most reasonably priced city, the K6 Field may be very pokey, measuring simply 3ft deep and large and 8ft 3″ excessive. 

It additionally options electrical energy and is at the moment categorised as a Listed Constructing. 

The telephone field – which dates again to the Thirties – may very well be transformed into a store and enterprise.

These have been first made to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V (Image: Bidx1/Triangle Information)

Nevertheless, when you’d somewhat reside someplace extra spacious, and for lots much less, you possibly can purchase a household terraced home in Shildon, County Durham – with a number of homes at the moment available on the market for between £40,000 and £45,000.

In Shildon, the common property worth is simply £71,000, making it the most affordable place to reside within the UK.

Within the itemizing, the ‘property’ is described as an ‘iconic piece of British heritage’ the place you possibly can run your personal enterprise, and even promote from. 

These historic listed ‘K6’ crimson telephone containers or ‘Jubilee’ kiosks commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V.

The telephone containers are situated on the East aspect of Kensington Excessive Road (Image: Google Road view)

In keeping with the itemizing, they have been initially designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott – the person behind Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, Battersea Energy Station and Bankside Energy Station (now Tate Trendy).

Many of those iconic crimson kiosks have been listed by Historic England and a few have been reworked into espresso outlets, libraries, flower outlets, bakeries and defibrillators.

Kensington – an prosperous district within the West of Central London – has its business coronary heart in Kensington Excessive Road, working on an east-west axis. 

The phone kiosk is situated on the east aspect reverse its junction with Dukes Lane.

On the finish of the day, it's registered as a Listed Constructing at Historic England.

Which means, when you can personal the kiosk and resell at any level, it’s classed as heritage land, so you possibly can’t take away it or alter the outside.