Metropolitan Police Box at the National Tramway Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1987. Police box.

Metropolitan Police Box at the National Tramway Museum

WRENN ID
grey-granite-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1987
Type
Police box
Address
Metropolitan Police Box at the National Tramway Museum, Matlock Road, Crich, DE4 5DP
OS grid reference
SK 345 548
Coordinates
53.08964, -1.48576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Metropolitan Police Box at The National Tramway Museum is a Mark 2 police box designed by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench and manufactured between 1930 and 1937. It is made of pre-cast concrete and has a square plan with each face being identical. Each face features six lower panels and two small fixed lights with glazing bars above. The doorway is located on the right half of the east face, and the entire structure is topped with a blue light. Originally, this police box was situated on the North Circular Road in London before being moved to its current location in 1983.

Local climate

Metropolitan Police Box at the National Tramway Museum receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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