Telephone Call Box, Tresta is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Telephone kiosk.
Telephone Call Box, Tresta
- WRENN ID
- seventh-tower-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Telephone kiosk
- OS grid reference
- HU 362 510
- Coordinates
- 60.24254, -1.34632
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The telephone call box in Tresta is a standard K6 telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935.
Local climate
Telephone Call Box, Tresta sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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, 3 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- North Outbuilding, Tresta House, Tresta
- South Outbuilding, Tresta House, Tresta
- North Walled Garden, Tresta House, Tresta
- Post Office, Tresta House, Tresta
- Tresta House, Tresta
- South Walled Garden, Tresta House, Tresta
- Fishhouse, The Store, Sandsound, Tresta
- Piers And Slipway, The Store, Sandsound, Tresta
- Semblister Church, Semblister
- Walled Garden, Ervhouse