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
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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- The Whalebone Arch, Netherurd
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- Memorials in burial ground, Kirkurd Old Church, Kirkurd