Town Hall (Sessions House) is a Grade II* listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. Town hall. 6 related planning applications.
Town Hall (Sessions House)
- WRENN ID
- lost-flagstone-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall (Sessions House), Market Place, Sleaford
- OS grid reference
- TF 067 458
- Coordinates
- 52.99953, -0.41012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, also known as the Sessions House, is a Grade II* listed building located on the west side of Market Place. It was designed in 1831 by local architect H E Kendall and showcases Gothic architectural style. The building stands two storeys tall and is constructed from ashlar stone. The first floor features five windows with four lights, each with mullion and transom, and decorated with quatrefoils, all set beneath arched dripmoulds. The right-hand corner has a rectangular dripmould and a slightly different window design.
The ground floor is arcaded, consisting of six 4-centred arches facing the Market Place, complete with moulded labels and an embattled string course. Full-height buttresses are positioned at the corners and between the end bays and the central three arches, each adorned with 'Gothic' canopies and capping at the first-floor height. The building is topped with a moulded corbel table and an embattled parapet.
To the right, there is a later extension (No 1), which is in a similar style and features three storeys. This extension has an embattled parapet with an end turret on the right side, three windows with chamfered surrounds and Gothic glazing. The centre window on the first floor is a shallow canted bay with a single central light and an embattled parapet. The ground floor of the extension has two arched windows and an arched doorway with a Gothic fanlight and a plain door, with buttresses extending to the first-floor level.
The Town Hall forms a group with the Drinking Fountain located in the centre of Market Place.
Local climate
Town Hall (Sessions House) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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