Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital

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Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
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Geography
Location Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°38′42″N2°59′48″W / 51.64500°N 2.99667°W / 51.64500; -2.99667
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Specialist
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
SpecialityLearning disabilities
History
Opened1953
Links
Website www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/40490
Lists Hospitals in Wales

Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital (Welsh : Ysbyty Llanfrechfa Grange) is a medical facility providing assessment and treatment services for people with learning disabilities. It is located to the east of Cwmbran on the B4236 road towards Caerleon to the south-east. It is managed by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The main building is a Grade II listed building. [1]

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History

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Entrance to the site

The site was previously occupied by Llanfrechfa Grange, a country house which was built for Charles Prothero in the middle of the 19th century. [2] It was "a large mansion in the Elizabethan style, pleasantly situated in a park of about 30 acres and overlooking the Valley". [3] It passed to Francis Johnstone Mitchell in 1860, [4] the Cleeve family in 1913, Sir John Cecil Davies in 1921, Elsie Louise Llewelyn in 1922 and to a property developer in 1933. [2]

In 1953, Llanfrechfa Grange started providing long term residential accommodation for people with learning disabilities. [5] In the early 1960s it had more than 500 beds, provided in a series of accommodation blocks called villas. [5] Although it still had more than 300 residents in 1983, [5] following the introduction of Care in the Community shortly thereafter, the hospital went into a period of decline and it finally closed to inpatients in 2008. [5] A Learning Disabilities Assessment and Treatment Unit was kept open at the site. [6]

In 2017 work to create and construct Grange University Hospital, a new specialist critical care centre, started on the site. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Llanfrechfa Grange". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 "The owners of Llanfrechfa Grange from 1848 to 2015". Llanfrechfa Grange Walled Garden Community. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire, 1901". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  4. ↑ Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 3 p. 287
  5. 1 2 3 4 "End of an era for Llanfrechfa Grange". South Wales Argus. 21 December 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Learning Disabilities Assessment and Treatment Unit". Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Taking shape - Gwent's £350m hospital project". South WalesArgus. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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