Police Box, Cathedral Sqaure is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 2008. Police box.

Police Box, Cathedral Sqaure

WRENN ID
silver-chimney-harvest
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 March 2008
Type
Police box
OS grid reference
NS 601 654
Coordinates
55.86207, -4.23648
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The police box located in Cathedral Square was designed by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1928 and constructed around 1935. It features a square plan and is made of regularly panelled reinforced concrete. The base is chamfered, and it has a shallow pyramidal roof with three stepped courses. The entrance includes a cast iron door and a communication hatch within a square panel to the left. The upper panels have six-pane fixed glazing, and there is a block frieze with a tablet displaying the word 'POLICE'.

Local climate

Police Box, Cathedral Sqaure 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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