Sessions House is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1983. Former council office. 6 related planning applications.
Sessions House
- WRENN ID
- half-keystone-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1983
- Type
- Former council office
- Address
- Sessions House, 17, Ewell Road, KT6 6AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 184 673
- Coordinates
- 51.39305, -0.29824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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