Sessions House is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. A Georgian House.
Sessions House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-sentry-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Sessions House, South Brink, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 459 096
- Coordinates
- 52.66455, 0.1564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sessions House is a former Sessions House of the Isle of Ely, built in 1808 and designed by local architect Thomas West. The building is constructed from local gault brick with stone dressings and features a hipped slate roof with a louvre. It has one storey and a half basement, with the main entrance facing east, accessed by stone stairs with iron railings. The façade includes a parapet with stone copings, rusticated quoins, a cornice band, and a plinth. There are five recessed, twelve-paned hung sash windows set in cambered gauged brick arches. The main entrance now has a modern door and fanlight within the original cambered, gauged brick arch, flanked by two similar windows. The original coved ceiling has been boarded over.
Local climate
Sessions House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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