Church Session House, Dirleton Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Session house, former gate house, former mortuary.
Church Session House, Dirleton Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- roaming-wall-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1988
- Type
- Session house, former gate house, former mortuary
- OS grid reference
- NT 512 841
- Coordinates
- 56.04793, -2.78391
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church Session House at Dirleton Parish Church is a small, single-storey building constructed in the mid-19th century, designed in a T-plan layout. It is connected to the west by low outbuildings. The structure is made of squared and snecked, droved rubble, featuring an ashlar base course and dressings.
On the east elevation, there is a gabled porch at the center, with windows located on the south side of the porch. The west elevation is adjoined by a lean-to rubble outbuilding, which has an opening to the north and is said to have been a former mortuary. The south gable features a single hood-moulded window at the center.
The building has sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The raised gablet skews of the Session House are adorned with simple volute skewputts, and there is a polygonal stack on the south gable. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Church Session House, Dirleton Parish Church receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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