Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Temple is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1990. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Temple

WRENN ID
grim-brick-dew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1990
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
NT 316 585
Coordinates
55.81548, -3.09165
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a telephone call box located on Main Street in Temple, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. It is a standard K6 telephone kiosk.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Temple sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 0.3°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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