3 K6 Telephone Kiosks, High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 March 1991. Telephone kiosk. 2 related planning applications.

3 K6 Telephone Kiosks, High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
young-stronghold-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 March 1991
Type
Telephone kiosk
Address
3 K6 Telephone Kiosks, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
OS grid reference
NT 258 736
Coordinates
55.94989, -3.18916
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Three K6 telephone kiosks, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced between 1936 and 1968, are located on the High Street in Edinburgh. These standard kiosks are arranged in a line on slightly sloping ground. Each kiosk features four sides of glazing with eight panes high, including narrow margin lights. One side has a cup handle at the fourth or fifth pane, which serves as the door. The rear of each kiosk has a blind cast-iron panel that includes a telephone and shelf unit. Each side also has a rectangular opal glass panel with a vent below and a central embossed crown above. The kiosks rise into four segmental-headed pediments that culminate in a saucer dome. They are made of cast iron and painted in Post Office red.

Local climate

3 K6 Telephone Kiosks, High 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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