Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1963. House.

Church House

WRENN ID
turning-step-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 June 1963
Type
House
Address
Church House, Gresford
OS grid reference
SJ 346 550
Coordinates
53.08843, -2.97751
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Church House, along with Strode House and Achill, features exposed and rendered brick with a slate roof and brick and rendered chimneys. The building has a rectangular plan with a taller extension at the rear and stands two storeys high. The left side of the building is rendered and has three renewed windows on each floor. The upper floor window on the right has a stone plaque beneath it with the inscription: "Hospitium Invalidorum Parochianorum Impensis Structum AD 1725 Thoma Pate Rogero Jones Petro Potter Iohan Edwards Guardianis." This part of the building is known as Achill, a private house.

The central section has a two-window range with incised stucco, a door, and casement windows. This section, along with the rear extension, is referred to as Church House. To the right is Strode House, which has a three-window exposed brick range featuring a dentil eaves cornice and flush casement windows. In the innermost bay of this range is a gabled brick porch with stone copings and kneelers, featuring an arched opening attached to a brick front wall with stone coping. Between the porch roof and the upper window is a stone plaque with a partially legible inscription. According to A N Palmer, this reads: "Schola Eleemosyna Dnae Margaretae Strode Fundata 1725 ad Pauperes Ejus Sumptibus Erudiendos."

Inside the rear extension, the schoolroom has an exposed timber roof and a dado made from 18th-century panelling. The remainder of the interior was not accessible during the 1995 survey.

Local climate

Church House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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