Telephone Call Boxes, Mar Road, Braemar is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 July 1991. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Call Boxes, Mar Road, Braemar

WRENN ID
spare-ledge-solstice
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 July 1991
Type
Telephone kiosk
OS grid reference
NO 150 913
Coordinates
57.00576, -3.40086
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The telephone call box on Mar Road in Braemar is a standard K6 telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced between 1936 and 1968. 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. The rear panel is a blind cast-iron panel that holds the telephone and a shelf. Each side of the kiosk has 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 terminate in a saucer dome. The kiosk is made of cast iron and is painted Post Office red.

Local climate

Telephone Call Boxes, Mar Road, Braemar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 90 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 70 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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