Police Call Box, Cowgate, 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.

Police Call Box, Cowgate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1990
Type
Police box
OS grid reference
NT 261 735
Coordinates
55.94908, -3.18377
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a rectangular cast-iron police call box located on Cowgate in Edinburgh, designed by E J MacRae between 1930 and 1931. The box features classical details and is painted blue. It has two-bay pilastered long elevations and single bay elevations with open pediments that contain ribboned wreath paterae. A plaque displaying the city arms is located on the door. All elevations have a saltire glazing pattern, and the structure is topped with a low-pitched roof.

Local climate

Police Call Box, Cowgate, 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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