Telephone Call Box, Traquair is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1990. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call Box, Traquair
- WRENN ID
- turning-roof-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1990
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- NT 330 346
- Coordinates
- 55.60108, -3.06368
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The telephone call box in Traquair, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced between 1936 and 1968, is a standard K6 telephone kiosk. It features three sides of lying-pane glazing with eight panes high and narrow margin lights. One glazed side has a cup handle aligned with the fourth and fifth panes, which forms the door, while the rear has a blind cast-iron panel that holds the telephone and a shelf. Each side displays a rectangular glass opal with the word "TELEPHONE" in black lettering, a vent below, and a central embossed crown on top. The structure rises into four segmental-headed pediments that culminate in a saucer dome. The kiosk is made of cast iron and is painted Post Office red.
Local climate
Telephone Call Box, Traquair sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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