Police Box, Charterhall Road is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 2007. Police box. 1 related planning application.
Police Box, Charterhall Road
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cobalt-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2007
- Type
- Police box
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 709
- Coordinates
- 55.92599, -3.1928
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a standard Edinburgh police box designed by City Architect Ebenezer James MacRae and his assistants A Rollo and J A Tweedie, built between 1930 and 1931. The police box is a classical, rectangular structure made of cast iron, measuring 6 feet by 4 feet in plan. It features two-bay pilastered long elevations, with one side containing a door that bears the city arms. The short elevations have a single bay each and are topped with triangular open pediments that display ribboned wreath decorations. The roof is low-pitched.
Local climate
Police Box, Charterhall Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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