Telephone Call Boxes, Alexandra Street, Kirkintilloch is a Grade B listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1989. Telephone kiosks.

Telephone Call Boxes, Alexandra Street, Kirkintilloch

WRENN ID
turning-transept-soot
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Dunbartonshire
Constituency
Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 June 1989
Type
Telephone kiosks
OS grid reference
NS 654 738
Coordinates
55.93863, -4.15542
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building consists of two standard K6 telephone kiosks located on Alexandra Street in Kirkintilloch. These kiosks were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935.

Local climate

Telephone Call Boxes, Alexandra Street, Kirkintilloch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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