Police Call Box, Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1996. Police box. 10 related planning applications.

Police Call Box, Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
last-bracket-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 October 1996
Type
Police box
Address
Police Call Box, Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4LP
OS grid reference
NT 255 770
Coordinates
55.98092, -3.19513
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The police call box located at Pier Place in Newhaven, Edinburgh, was built by the City Architects Department under E J MacRae in the early 1930s. This standard rectangular-plan classical police box measures 6 feet by 4 feet.

It features two-bay pilastered long elevations, with one side containing a door that bears the City Arms. The short elevation has a single bay with pilasters and open pediments that display ribboned wreath decoration. The glazing on all sides is obscured.

Local climate

Police Call Box, Pier Place, Newhaven, 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 10 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 6 Fishmarket Square and 1 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 21 m
  2. 2 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 22 m
  3. 3 Wester Close, Edinburgh Grade C 27 m
  4. 3 Pier Place And 1 Lamb's Court, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade B 29 m
  5. 4, 5 Wester Close, Edinburgh Grade C 29 m
  6. 5 Fishmarket Square, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 32 m
  7. 2 Wester Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 40 m
  8. 2 Lamb's Court, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 41 m
  9. 6 Wester Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade C 43 m
  10. 4 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh Grade B 43 m