K6 Telephone Kiosks, Chalmer's Close, High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 March 1991. Telephone kiosk.

K6 Telephone Kiosks, Chalmer's Close, High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
eternal-lime-indigo
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 March 1991
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
NT 260 736
Coordinates
55.9505, -3.18564
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The K6 telephone kiosks located at Chalmer's Close on High Street in Edinburgh were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced between 1936 and 1968. This pair of standard kiosks features three sides made of lying-pane glazing, with eight panes high and narrow margin lights. One side has a glazed door with a cup handle aligned with the fourth and fifth panes, while the rear has a blind cast-iron panel that holds the telephone and a shelf. Each kiosk has a rectangular glass opal with the word "TELEPHONE" in black lettering on each side, a vent below, and a central embossed crown on top. The kiosks rise into four segmental-headed pediments that end in a saucer dome. They are made of cast iron and painted in Post Office red.

Local climate

K6 Telephone Kiosks, Chalmer's Close, High 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 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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