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
1593
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/06/1963
Date of Amendment
03/06/1996
Name of Property
Strode House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Gresford
Town
Locality
Gresford
Easting
334633
Northing
355017
Street Side
Location
Situated to the N of All Saints Church
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former school founded by Margaret Strode, daughter of Col. John Roberts of Gwersyllt; she left a bequest of £500 for the education of 3 poor boys and 3 poor girls. The building was erected in 1725 and an additional schoolroom was built to the rear in 1838 at a cost of £607 10s. C18 panelling which is said to have come from All Saints Church was used to make a dado in this room. The almshouses were also built in 1725 adjoining the school. They were built under the direction of Dr Robert Wynne chancellor of the diocese and vicar at Gresford for 53 years. The building is now 3 separate properties; the ranges at each end are private houses, that to the left probably extended, and the central section is used as church meeting rooms.
Exterior
Interior
The schoolroom in the rear extension has an exposed timber roof and a dado formed from panelling of C18 character. Remainder of interior not accessible at time of 1995 survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as an example of a C18 school and almshouses with original plaques recording the date of foundation. Group value with All Saints Church and with graveyard walls and gatepiers to All Saints Graveyard.
Group Description
Strode House, Church House and Achill
Exposed and rendered brick, slate roof, brick and rendered chimneys. Rectangular plan with taller extension to rear, 2 storeys. To left the building is rendered, 3 windows to each floor renewed, upper floor window to right has stone plaque beneath with the inscription: `Hospitium Invalidorum Parochianorum Impensis Structum AD 1725 Thoma Pate Rogero Jones Petro Potter Iohan Edwards Guardianis.'This section is a private house known as Achill.
Central 2-window range has incised stucco and has door and casement windows. This section with the rear extension is known as Church House. To the right Strode House, a 3-window exposed brick range with dentil eaves cornice and flush casement windows. In the innermost bay of this range is a gabled brick porch with stone copings and kneelers with an arched opening which is attached to a brick front wall with stone coping. Between the porch roof and upper window is a stone plaque with the partially legible inscription. According to A N Palmer this reads: `Schola Eleemosyna Dnae Margaretae Strode Fundata 1725 ad Pauperes Ejus Sumptibus Erudiendos.'
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