Police Call Box, Rutland Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1990. Police box. 6 related planning applications.
Police Call Box, Rutland Square, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- knotted-postern-ivy
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1990
- Type
- Police box
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94892, -3.20888
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a standard Edinburgh police call box designed by the City Architects Department, specifically by E J MacRae, in the late 1930s. The box has a rectangular plan measuring 6 feet by 4 feet and is made of cast iron with a gabled roof. It is located at the northeast entrance to Rutland Square. The principal elevations are pilastered, with the entrance elevation to the northeast featuring a corniced door on the right that bears the city arms, and two small corniced doors to the left. The short elevations are each topped with open pediments that include ribboned wreath decorations. All elevations are fitted with Saltaire patterned glazing.
Local climate
Police Call Box, Rutland Square, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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