Session House, Town Hall, High Street, Anstruther Wester is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1972. Town hall.

Session House, Town Hall, High Street, Anstruther Wester

WRENN ID
rough-spandrel-dew
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 May 1972
Type
Town hall
Address
Session House, Town Hall, High Street, Anstruther Wester, KY10 3DJ
OS grid reference
NO 564 035
Coordinates
56.22212, -2.70405
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Session House, located at the Town Hall on High Street in Anstruther Wester, was rebuilt in 1795. It is a two-storey building with three windows, featuring a harled exterior, crowstepped gables, and a slated roof. There have been later alterations, including a moulded doorpiece. Internal changes were made in 1970. Additionally, there is an early 20th-century single-storey session room with a canted front on the south side.

Local climate

Session House, Town Hall, High Street, Anstruther Wester receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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