Session House, Newburn Parish Church

The Session House at Newburn Parish Church is a simple rectangular-plan Gothic church designed by architect Alexander Leslie of Largo and built between 1814 and 1815. It was converted into a dwelling house in 1970 by L A Rolland & Partners of Leven. The church features a two-stage square tower on the east side constructed of whin rubble with yellow ashlar long and short dressings. The upper stage of the tower is made of ashlar and includes pointed and hood-moulded belfry openings on each face, a corbelled and crenellated parapet, and a faceted spire.

The south elevation is symmetrical, showcasing glazed former doors in the outer bays, a low centrally placed piend-roofed projecting vestry, and two blind quatrefoil panels above flanked by two tall windows. All openings are pointed-headed and hood-moulded with intersecting tracery. The roof is piended and covered with slate, featuring a single central stack.

The north elevation loses its symmetry due to the insertion of one door and one window, with pointed windows featuring intersecting tracery in each outer bay, and a group of four symmetrical centre windows at the ground level and former gallery. The roof here is also slated.

To the west, there is a flat-roofed, square-plan detached former session house made of whin rubble with yellow ashlar dressings, featuring a door on the east elevation. The ashlar capping blocks on the session house imitate crenellations. The property is enclosed by a rubble-built wall with square, droved ashlar gatepiers.