Scottish Automobile Club Sign, corner of Lennox Street and Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 2021. Sign.
Scottish Automobile Club Sign, corner of Lennox Street and Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- vast-roof-dale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 2021
- Type
- Sign
- OS grid reference
- NT 242 743
- Coordinates
- 55.95632, -3.215
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Scottish Automobile Club Sign is a circular cast iron sign located at the corner of Lennox Street and Oxford Terrace in Edinburgh. It was erected between 1900 and 1917 and features a saltire surrounded by the inscription 'Scottish Automobile Club'. The sign is unpainted and mounted on a post approximately two and a half meters high.
The Scottish Automobile Club was established in 1899 to promote automobile use in Scotland, with founding members including William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir. The club's motto, 'Gang Warily', emphasized responsible automobile ownership and highlighted the economic benefits of motoring and touring in Scotland. By 1912, the club's membership had grown to 1,826, including both car owners and chauffeurs.
During the early 20th century, regulations for road safety and management were beginning to take shape. Road signage responsibility was transferred to highway authorities in 1903, and the 1909 Roads Development and Improvement Funds Act initiated the standardization of road signs, although formal guidelines were not issued until 1921. The Scottish Automobile Club began erecting its own signs around 1900, and the design of this particular sign suggests it was made before the club was renamed the Royal Scottish Automobile Club in 1917.
Local climate
Scottish Automobile Club Sign, corner of Lennox Street and Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh 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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