K9 Telephone Kiosk, George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1990.
K9 Telephone Kiosk, George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- shifting-glass-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95387, -3.19455
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The K6 Telephone Kiosk on George Street in Edinburgh was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in 1935. It is a standard K6 model, notable for its iconic design.
Local climate
K9 Telephone Kiosk, George 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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- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
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