Cefn Mably Hospital

Coordinates: 51°33′18″N 3°07′05″W / 51.555°N 3.118°W / 51.555; -3.118 Cefn Mably Hospital is the name of a hospital which was situated in the St Mellons area of Cardiff, Wales, UK.

History

A house of some sort stood there in the early 12th century and this was largely rebuilt in the Tudor architecture style in the 16th century; the east wing was subsequently rebuilt from 1688 in Georgian architecture style.[1]

As a manor house, in 1893 it was described by the Cardiff Times as one of the finest and most historic country seats in Wales".[2] The building was leased by Lord Tredegar at very low cost to the local health authority as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1920s. At its opening in 1924 it held 112 patients.[1] Subsequently it became a geriatric hospital.

When it closed down in 1983, the building, which was listed,[3] became derelict.[4] A fire raged through the building in 1994:[2] the remains of the building were eventually converted to luxury apartments.

References

  1. 1 2 V Goodman, "Cefn Mably Hospital", Glamorgan Family History Society Journal no 59, September 2000
  2. 1 2 "Cefn Mably House, Caerphilly". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 January 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Detail of listing Archived December 27, 2004 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmcumeds/195/195ap36.htm "A beautiful house that has been so brutally vandalised it has now become the local fly tip": evidence given to the House of Commons by the charity Save Britain's Heritage.
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