Police Call Box, West Port, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Police box. 1 related planning application.

Police Call Box, West Port, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
peeling-copper-heron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Police box
Address
Police Call Box, West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2JA
OS grid reference
NT 252 732
Coordinates
55.94665, -3.19813
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a standard police call box located on West Port in Edinburgh, designed in the late 1930s by the City Architects' Department, specifically by Ebenezer J MacRae, the City Architect. The box is a classical rectangular structure made of cast iron, measuring 6 feet by 4 feet in plan. It features two long elevations with pilasters, one of which has a door that displays the city arms. The short elevations are single bay and topped with open pediments that feature ribboned wreath decorations. The windows of the box have been blocked.

Local climate

Police Call Box, West Port, 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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