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Latitude: 55.8334 / 55°50'0"N
Longitude: -3.0892 / 3°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 331871
OS Northings: 660559
OS Grid: NT318605
Mapcode National: GBR 60VZ.ZQ
Mapcode Global: WH6T7.JM4W
Plus Code: 9C7RRWM6+98
Entry Name: Session House, Carrington Parish Church
Listing Name: Carrington Village, Carrington Kirk, Session House
Listing Date: 22 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 331059
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB677
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Carrington Parish Church, Session House
ID on this website: 200331059
Location: Carrington
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian South
Parish: Carrington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Session house
Earlier 19th century. Single storey, single bay, rectangular-plan session house. Tooled, coursed pink sandstone rubble with droved dressings. Eaves course; long and short quoins; chamfered reveals.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; four-centred-arched doorway to centre; 2-leaf timber door.
S AND E ELEVATIONS: blank.
N ELEVATION: symmetrical; 2 pointed-arched diamond-pane windows.
Grey slate roof; coped stone skews. Cement faced, coped gablehead stack to E with circular can.
The session house, which lies adjacent to the gates of Carrington Church (see separate listing), is suggested by Colin McWilliam to have been built at about the same time as Thomas Brown was carrying out alterations to the church (1838).
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