Sessions House, Surbiton


The Sessions House is a municipal building in Ewell Road, Surbiton, London. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The building, which was designed in the Edwardian Baroque style, was completed in 1898. It served as the civic offices of the Surbiton Urban District Council and then became the headquarters of Municipal Borough of Surbiton when it secured municipal borough status in 1936. It ceased to be the local seat of government after the creation of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 1965 and, instead, the building was used for judicial purposes as a sessions house i.e. courthouse. It became surplus to requirements in 2012 and since then has been used as a learning disability centre.