Sessions House

Sessions House is a former council office building constructed in 1898. It is two storeys tall and five bays wide, built from red brick with stone dressings and stone quoins. The center bay is faced with stone and set slightly forward, featuring an arched doorway with a wrought iron balcony above a round-arched window. This window has a shouldered stone architrave with scrolled feet. The windows in the side bays are segmental-arched on the ground floor and round-arched on the first floor, both with shouldered architraves. The building has a steep-pitched, hipped slate roof and a stone eaves cornice, with an open pediment over the center bay that contains a cartouche. There is a cupola with a clock at the center, and prominent slab-like chimneys on either side. To the sides, there are lower two-storey wings, with single-storey wings in front. There is also a two-storey symmetrical return to the left, which has nine bays, with the central and side bays projecting and featuring pediments; the central one is segmental while the others are triangular.