The Old Sessions House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1973. Public building.
The Old Sessions House
- WRENN ID
- deep-corner-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1973
- Type
- Public building
- Address
- The Old Sessions House, Boxley Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 562
- Coordinates
- 51.2786, 0.52234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sessions House, designed by architect Sir Robert Smirke in 1824, is a two-storey building constructed of ashlar, which has recently been refaced. The structure features a central section flanked by two slightly projecting wings. It has a parapet and a modillion cornice with a blocking course above the center. On the first floor, there are three round-headed windows in the central portion and one square leaded window in each wing, all with intact glazing bars. The ground floor includes a wide round-headed doorway with a semi-circular fanlight and double doors, each with eight panels, along with narrow round-headed windows in each wing. Access to the building is via six stone steps leading to street level. The interior boasts a stone staircase with one wooden Doric column at each step.
Local climate
The Old Sessions House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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