Telephone Call Box, St Giles' Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2002. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Box, St Giles' Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
still-courtyard-thyme
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 2002
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call Box, St Giles' Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PT
OS grid reference
NT 256 736
Coordinates
55.9502, -3.19231
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a standard K6 telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. It is located to the east of the Royal Bank building on St Giles' Street in Edinburgh.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box, St Giles' 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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