Tag: listed status

UK’s iconic first red public telephone box listed

  • Telephone box has been outside the Royal Academy in London since 1924
  • Box was built as part of a competition to create the iconic design

Heritage Minister Helen Whately has announced that the prototype for the UK’s first red public telephone box has been upgraded to Grade II* in recognition of its iconic design status. Continue reading UK’s iconic first red public telephone box listed

Banana Flats to become a listed building? What are you on?

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The Leith flats made famous as the home of one of the main characters in Irvine Welsh’s ‘Trainspotting’, could be in line to become the latest iconic capital building to receive ‘listed’ status. Continue reading Banana Flats to become a listed building? What are you on?