Police Call Box, Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Police box.

Police Call Box, Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
waning-flint-swallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1993
Type
Police box
OS grid reference
NT 250 719
Coordinates
55.93504, -3.20124
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The police call box on Whitehouse Loan in Edinburgh was designed by the City Architect's Department under EJ MacRae around 1935. It is a standard Edinburgh police box, featuring a classical, rectangular shape made of cast iron, measuring 6 feet by 4 feet. The long sides have two bays with pilasters, and one side includes a door that displays the City Arms. The shorter sides are topped with open pediments that feature ribboned wreath decorations. The glazing has a saltire pattern but is currently boarded over.

Local climate

Police Call Box, Whitehouse Loan, 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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