Session House, Carrington Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Session House, Carrington Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- dim-step-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 318 605
- Coordinates
- 55.83343, -3.08927
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th century session house, a single-story structure with a rectangular plan and a single bay. Constructed of tooled, coursed pink sandstone rubble, it has droved dressings, an eaves course, long and short quoins, and chamfered window reveals.
The west-facing principal elevation is symmetrical, featuring a four-centred-arched doorway in the centre with a two-leaf timber door. The south and east elevations are blank. The north elevation is also symmetrical, with two pointed-arched windows containing diamond-paned glass.
The roof is covered in grey slate with coped stone skews, and there is a cement-faced, coped gablehead stack on the east side, topped with a circular can.
The session house sits adjacent to the gates of Carrington Church (listed separately) and is believed to have been built around 1838, coinciding with alterations to the church by Thomas Brown, according to Colin McWilliam. References to the building appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1852 and the second edition of 1892.
Local climate
Session House, Carrington Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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