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
1568
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/06/1963  
Date of Amendment
01/12/1995  
Name of Property
Orphanage  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Broughton  
Town
 
Locality
Berse Drelincourt  
Easting
331627  
Northing
350866  
Street Side
 
Location
Immediatey N of the vicarage, set back from Berse Road opposite Berse Drelincourt Church.  

Description


Broad Class
Health and Welfare  
Period
 

History
Dean Drelincourt of Armagh left money in his will of 1716 to build a charity school and orphanage for 20 poor girls. This endowment was the foundation of a development at Berse which comprised the vicarage, flanked by orphanage and schoolroom in a symmetrical composition. The present building was the orphanage itself - the dwelling and sleeping rooms for '20 poor girls'. Now a private house.  

Exterior
Roughcast render over the original brickwork with slate roof. Single storeyed, comprising 2 parallel coped- gabled ranges, with central advanced gable to N elevation housing renewed doorway and wide pedimented central gable to S. Windows throughout renewed in what may be the original cambered headed openings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
The building has been extensively altered on conversion to a private dwelling, but is of considerable historical interest as part of the charitable foundation and small community at Berse Drelincourt. It forms part of a group with the Vicarage.  

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