Session House, Kirkurd Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971.

Session House, Kirkurd Parish Church

WRENN ID
scattered-pavement-marsh
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 127 443
Coordinates
55.68432, -3.38902
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1828, this is a square building serving as a session house, also described as a watchhouse, situated at the entrance gate to Kirkurd Parish Church. It has a piended roof—a roof with slopes on all four sides—and a chimney located on one side.

Local climate

Session House, Kirkurd Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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  10. Memorials in burial ground, Kirkurd Old Church, Kirkurd Grade B 1.0 km