Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 April 1996. Arch, gate lodge.

Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' Farm

WRENN ID
floating-corridor-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 April 1996
Type
Arch, gate lodge
Address
Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' Farm, Holt
OS grid reference
SJ 406 536
Coordinates
53.07698, -2.88668
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' Farm is a U-shaped range of barracks buildings constructed of wood with a sheet iron roof. A continuous raised ventilation vent runs along the ridge of the roof. The two long ranges contain thirty-five large single cells for accommodation, each accessed by an individual door featuring a moulded wooden architrave and topped with a timber swan-neck pediment. To the left of each doorway is an oval blue and white enamel number plate. A wooden string course runs the full length of these ranges, and between each doorway is an eight-paned fixed window, also surmounted by a swan-neck pediment. The southerly gable ends of both long ranges are adorned with decorative cast iron finials.

The short range to the north has a central raised open section for machinery storage, which is pedimented and originally housed a bellcote. On either side of this section are more single cell accommodations. Inside each large cell, there is an open wall-mounted cupboard with ten individual pigeon holes and coat hooks beneath. A list of rules and regulations is pasted on the courtyard end of each cupboard. The end blocks of the longer ranges contain toilets.

Local climate

Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' Farm receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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