Police Telephone Box is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1988. Telephone box.
Police Telephone Box
- WRENN ID
- vast-bastion-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1988
- Type
- Telephone box
- Address
- Police Telephone Box, Sandside, Scarborough
- OS grid reference
- TA 048 887
- Coordinates
- 54.28398, -0.39153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Police Telephone Box is a Grade II listed structure dating from around 1920. It is made of wood and has a square plan. Each face features a window with marginal glazing, and one of the windows is set in the door. The wall surfaces are divided into panels, and there is a triglyph frieze along the cornice. The box has a shallow pyramid roof with iron ogee section guttering, topped with a police call sign. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Police Telephone Box receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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