Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Swinton is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1993. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Swinton
- WRENN ID
- steep-clay-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1993
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- NT 834 474
- Coordinates
- 55.71997, -2.26531
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The telephone call box on Main Street in Swinton was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. It is a standard K6 telephone kiosk.
Local climate
Telephone Call Box, Main Street, Swinton receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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