Cefn Mably House ( cy, Ty Cefn Mabli) is a mansion situated in

Cefn Mably Cefn Mably is a district located approximately 6 miles north of Cardiff city centre and 5 miles south-east of Caerphilly. It's mostly within the city and county of Cardiff but is also partly within the Caerphilly County Borough. Notable Buildi ...

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. It is a Grade II

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. The gardens surrounding the house are listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

History

A house of some sort stood on the site in the early 12th century and this was largely rebuilt by Edward Kemeys, High Sheriff of Glamorgan, in the

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in the late 16th century. The east wing was subsequently rebuilt in the

Georgian style Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, Geor ...

from 1688.V Goodman, "Cefn Mably Hospital", ''Glamorgan Family History Society Journal'' no 59, September 2000 It was described by the ''Cardiff Times'' in 1893 as one of the finest and most historic country seats in Wales". It was inherited by Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte in the mid 18th century and then acquired by

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in 1920. Tredegar made the building available to the local health board at a subsidized rate and it opened as a

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with 112 patients in 1924. It joined the

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in 1948 and, subsequently, became a geriatric hospital, before closing in the early 1980s. The building was badly damaged in a fire in 1994 and subsequently became derelict. In 1998 the heritage organisation,

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, described it as "a beautiful house that has been so brutally vandalised it has now become the local fly tip." In the early 2000s it was restored and converted into apartments. The gardens surrounding the house are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

References

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