Telephone Call Box, Burravoe, Yell is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Box, Burravoe, Yell

WRENN ID
pitched-stone-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
HU 519 793
Coordinates
60.49464, -1.05588
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a telephone call box located in Burravoe, Yell, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935. It is a standard K6 telephone kiosk.

Local climate

Telephone Call Box, Burravoe, Yell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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