Telephone Call Box, High Street, South Queensferry is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 March 1991. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Box, High Street, South Queensferry

WRENN ID
hushed-ember-heath
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 March 1991
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
Telephone Call Box, High Street, South Queensferry, EH30 9PP
OS grid reference
NT 129 783
Coordinates
55.9903, -3.39696
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This telephone call box, located on High Street in South Queensferry, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in 1935. It is a standard K6 telephone kiosk.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box, High Street, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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