Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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