The Beeches Nursing Home (formerly known as Ty Mawr) is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Bridge.
The Beeches Nursing Home (formerly known as Ty Mawr)
- WRENN ID
- little-bracket-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- The Beeches Nursing Home (formerly known as Ty Mawr), Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 249 089
- Coordinates
- 51.7743, -3.08899
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Beeches Nursing Home, formerly known as Ty Mawr, is a late Georgian three-storey mansion that has been rendered. The original structure is rectangular in shape with extensions at the rear. It features small-pane sash windows and has a six-bay main facade with a plinth and band courses separating the floors. The wide doorway is flanked by a pair of wooden pilasters set on stone plinths, though the door itself is modern. The ground floor has six windows of varying sizes, five of which are sash, while one small window appears to be a later addition. The first floor contains four sash windows, and the second floor has five. A cast iron fire escape is attached to the facade, likely dating from its time as a hospital. The deep wooden eaves have simple moulding, and the hipped, M-shaped roof is covered with slate and has lead covering the ridge tiles. A large rendered chimney stack is located at the north end, topped with nine yellow ceramic chimney pots. To the south, there is a rendered ashlar wall with a lean-to roof, edged with a thin tapering stone column.
The south elevation, which overlooks the gardens, has become the main entrance at some point and includes two later blocks added to the east, all featuring square-headed sash windows. The original block has two bays on three storeys and a conservatory across the ground floor supported by five cast iron columns. Adjoining this is a later block with three bays on two storeys and a pitched slate roof, along with another one-storey block that has a flat roof.
The interior has undergone significant alterations to serve as a nursing home, though the original room layouts can still be discerned from the remaining ceiling cornices. Two large reception rooms on the ground floor retain their grand fireplaces, one of which is made of cast iron with intricate detailing, painted to resemble carved marble. The main staircase may be original, and a lift installed in 1926 by Smith Major and Stephens is part of the building's initial hospital phase. The cellar features wall tiling that incorporates a green cross, indicating its former use as a mortuary.
Local climate
The Beeches Nursing Home (formerly known as Ty Mawr) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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