Police Call Box, Wilson Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 1995. Police box. 1 related planning application.

Police Call Box, Wilson Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
lesser-ember-burdock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 September 1995
Type
Police box
Address
Police Call Box, Wilson Street, Glasgow, G1 1SS
OS grid reference
NS 593 651
Coordinates
55.85874, -4.24872
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This police call box, designed by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1928 and built around 1935, is made of reinforced concrete and has a square plan. It features panelled sides with two-leaf doors and a block frieze that includes a tablet for a 'POLICE' sign. The roof is stepped inward and has a circular, dome-capped metal finial at the center, which serves as a lamp or ventilator. Each face of the box has upper panels with six-pane glazing. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

Police Call Box, Wilson Street, Glasgow 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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