The KX100 design caused controversy when it replaced the classic red phone box – but now a handful may be given listed status
Campaigners are trying to secure listed status for the “boringly ugly” telephone boxes that BT controversially used to replace thousands of red phone boxes in the 1980s.
At the time, the boxes were promoted as vandal-proof, airy and wheelchair accessible. As the glass door did not extend to the ground, they were easier to clean and less likely to smell of urine – which had become a feature of the red boxes.But BT later conceded that the new boxes were unpopular with the public. In a 2010 account of a, BT said: “Popular opinion was that the square shape seemed clinical and that something softer and more rounded would be preferable.
It accepts that a mass listing of KX100s would be “neither credible nor desirable”. But it has applied for listed status for three of the most historically significant ones in the UK. They are: In Wales, an experimental model at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, which is uniquely powered by a solar panel atop the kiosk and an adjacent 18ft-high wind turbine.
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