Telephone Call Box, Junction Of Bridge Road And Spylaw Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2003. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Box, Junction Of Bridge Road And Spylaw Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
low-steel-pine
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 2003
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
NT 213 689
Coordinates
55.90735, -3.25888
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a Telephone Call Box located at the junction of Bridge Road and Spylaw Street in Edinburgh. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced between 1936 and 1968, it is a standard K6 telephone kiosk. The kiosk features three sides of lying-pane glazing that are approximately 8 feet high, with narrow margin lights. One of the glazed sides has a cup handle aligned with the fourth and fifth panes, which forms the door. The rear of the kiosk has a blind cast-iron panel that holds the telephone and a shelf. Each side of the kiosk displays a rectangular glass opal with the word "TELEPHONE" in black lettering, a vent below, and a central embossed crown on top. The structure rises into four segmental-headed pediments that terminate in a saucer dome. The kiosk is made of cast iron and is painted in Post Office red.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box, Junction Of Bridge Road And Spylaw Street, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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