K6 Telephone Kiosk, Lawn Market, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 2001. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Lawn Market, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
standing-span-bittern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 October 2001
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Lawn Market, Edinburgh, EH1 2NT
OS grid reference
NT 255 735
Coordinates
55.94947, -3.19298
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosk, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1935, is located on the north side of Lawnmarket, outside number 435. There are two standard K6 kiosks in this area.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Lawn Market, 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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