Police Call Box, Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 September 2002. Police box.

Police Call Box, Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sombre-string-meadow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 September 2002
Type
Police box
OS grid reference
NT 228 732
Coordinates
55.94631, -3.23685
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Police Call Box on Murrayfield Avenue in Edinburgh was designed by the City Architects Department under E J MacRae in the late 1930s. It is a standard Edinburgh police box, featuring two single-bay rectangular plans measuring 6 feet by 4 feet, located at the southeast end of Murrayfield Avenue. The long elevations are pilastered, with the entrance elevation facing west on the left-hand side of the street. To the right of the entrance, there is a corniced door bearing the city arms, while to the left are two small corniced doors. The short elevations are topped with open pediments that display ribboned wreath decorations. All elevations are fitted with Saltaire patterned glazing, and the box has a felt-covered roof equipped with a UKWMO siren.

Local climate

Police Call Box, Murrayfield Avenue, 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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