Session-House, Temple Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1979. Session house.
Session-House, Temple Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- tenth-roof-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1979
- Type
- Session house
- OS grid reference
- NT 315 587
- Coordinates
- 55.81732, -3.09423
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Session House at Temple Parish Church, likely designed by Thomas Brown of Uphall around 1832, is a single bay, single storey building with a rectangular plan in the Tudor Gothic style. It is constructed from tooled coursed sandstone with droved dressings. The exterior features pointed arched openings with chamfered reveals, long and short droved quoins on the north and south elevations, and an eaves course.
On the west elevation, which serves as the entrance, the design is symmetrical with a gabled roof. The central doorway is hoodmoulded and has simple label stops, leading to a two-leaf boarded timber door adorned with decorative ironwork hinges.
The south elevation is mostly obscured by a timber lean-to addition topped with a corrugated iron roof. The east elevation is similarly obscured by a brick lean-to addition, also with a corrugated iron roof, but features a boarded timber door on the right return.
The north elevation is symmetrical with a single bay and a single window at the center, which contains a diamond pane. The building is topped with a grey slate roof featuring a lead ridge and saddle back skews, and has a polished sandstone, corbelled, coped gablehead stack on the west side.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
Session-House, Temple 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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