Wood House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 December 1996. House.

Wood House

WRENN ID
crooked-stronghold-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 December 1996
Type
House
Address
Wood House, Marchwiel
OS grid reference
SJ 347 466
Coordinates
53.0136, -2.97394
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Wood House is a Grade II listed building constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof that is hipped to the front range, featuring rendered brick chimneys. The front elevation is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and three windows, with a central door that includes a fanlight. There is a low extension attached to the right side. At the rear, there is a range that runs at right angles, also two storeys high with three windows, an off-centre hipped porch on the right return side, and a projecting wing.

The main entrance opens into a hall that features an open-string stair with a wreathed handrail and slender balusters, and the ceiling is adorned with a decorative plaster rose. Doors lead to rooms on either side, both with boxed and plastered ceiling beams. The room on the right has a plasterwork frieze and decorative motifs on the soffit of the beam, while the left room features similar plasterwork with vine motifs. The rear range includes a room with a pair of doors that have false Tudor arches in the timber framing of the wall shared with a 19th-century range. This room also has a heavy ovolo-moulded ceiling beam and a fireplace that possibly has a reset stone lintel inscribed with the letters: EIR 1692. The entrance door, which likely dates from the early 18th century, is probably reset. Additionally, there is a further room that contains a narrow stair leading to the upper floor. A partial inspection of the interior was conducted during a survey in 1996.

Local climate

Wood House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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