Madras Voluntary Aided School is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 2005. School.

Madras Voluntary Aided School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 2005
Type
School
Address
Madras Voluntary Aided School, Penley, Maelor South
OS grid reference
SJ 412 400
Coordinates
52.95438, -2.87627
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Madras Voluntary Aided School is a single-storey school built in the cottage orne style, featuring roughcast walls painted cream, wide small-pane windows, and a steep hipped thatch roof with wide boarded eaves. The symmetrical front of the building includes a central lower half-hipped porch, which has a 2-light small-pane window at the front. Above the window is a stone tablet with raised letters that reads: 'Madras School founded by George 2nd Lord Kenyon 1811'. The porch has replacement boarded doors on its side walls. On each side of the porch, there are a 4-light window and a 6-light window. At the rear, the right side has a later small-pane window positioned above the eaves under a gable. The right side also features a smaller similar window that has been replaced in an earlier opening, along with a gable. In the center of the rear, there is another gable, but its opening is obscured by an early 20th-century wing, which is roughcast painted cream, has a tile roof, and a brick stack. The openings in this wing have all been altered. Behind it, there is a 1960s extension made of pale brick with a flat roof, which is mostly covered by a later red-brick extension built in 1999 that is less sympathetic in design.

The interior is now divided into two rooms, but it was probably originally a single room. Each side of the interior features two late 19th-century king-post trusses with raking struts, which are bolted rather than pegged, and are boxed on the left side. The underside of the roof is boarded.

Local climate

Madras Voluntary Aided School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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