Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14453
Building Number
26
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1994
Date of Amendment
15/03/1994
Name of Property
26 Salop Road
Address
26 Salop Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Overton
Easting
337371
Northing
341452
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road at the edge of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
Victorian
History
Built as 3 almshouses, dated 1848, and internally remodelled to form 2 dwellings. Inscription in typanum of central entrance records 'A.D. 1848, These almshouses were erected to the memory of Caroline Bennion, late of Wrexham Fechan by her affectionate sisters. Faithful in the unremitting exercise of charity to the poor and every Christian virtue, she departed this life on the 6th February 1847'.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of the Tudor Gothic style considered particularly appropriate for almshouse design, which externally retains much of its original character.
Group Description
25 & 26 Salop Road, Overton
Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Ornamented chamfered stone aixial stacks. Tudor Gothic style. Single storeyed, symmetrically planned with central and 2 flanking gables divided by recessed bays. Originally planned as 3x2-unit dwellings, occupying the central range and 2 cross wings. Central entrance is now disused but survives intact. Narrow central porch with steep pedimented gable echoing arch over doorway, and inscription in tympanum. This central entrance is flanked by renewed casement windows, then by the symmetrical outer gables. These each have a canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed arched lights and iron casements. Fleurons to coped gables flanked by pinnacles, and with an embattled parapet continuing across front and return elevations. Return elevations have similar gabled central porches, and renewed casement windows to either side.
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