The Sessions House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. A Georgian Public building. 6 related planning applications.
The Sessions House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-nave-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1950
- Type
- Public building
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Sessions House, New Walk, Beverley
- OS grid reference
- TA 026 401
- Coordinates
- 53.84768, -0.44109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sessions House is a building constructed between 1804 and 1814 by J P Pritchett. It features a central block with a Greek Ionic tetrastyle stone portico, flanked by low one-storey wings. The two-storey central block has three arched windows on the first floor, two of which are located in the wings. The building is made of white brick with stone architraves and cornices surrounding the sash windows, and it has stone dressings. The central doorway is detailed with an architrave, frieze, cornice, and consoles. The rear wall of the central block is curved. The roof is covered with Westmorland graded slates and extends over the portico to create a pediment, which features a tympanum carved with the coloured Royal Arms, topped by a figure of Justice. There is a later addition of a two-storey wing to the right, built in yellow brick, which has seven windows with stone lintels and a band at the first-floor cill end.
Local climate
The Sessions House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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
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