The Sessions House is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Government building.
The Sessions House
- WRENN ID
- patient-cornice-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Government building
- Address
- The Sessions House, Chester Road, Daresbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 579 828
- Coordinates
- 53.34048, -2.63323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sessions House is a former Sessions House built in 1841, now used by licensed premises. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has one storey with three bays. The middle bay features a plastered recess that is flanked by wide stone pilasters with moulded caps. This recess contains a tablet with a Latin inscription that indicates the building's purpose and date. The structure has a stone plinth, brick pilasters near the quoins, and a wide plain frieze at the eaves topped with a moulded cornice and a solid parapet. The wide windows on either side of the central bay have twin mullions, arched transoms, glazing bars, stone sills, and skewback flat arches. The roof is hipped, adorned with lead rolls, and has chimneys with stone caps.
Local climate
The Sessions House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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