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. Mansion.

The Beeches Nursing Home (formerly known as Ty Mawr)

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
Mansion
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A late Georgian rendered three storey mansion. The original block is on a rectangular plan with extensions to rear. Small-pane sash windows. Six-bay main facade with plinth and band courses between floors. Wide doorway is flanked by pair of wooden pilasters standing on stone plinths. Door itself is modern. There are six ground floor windows of varying sizes, five are sash. One small window is probably a later insert. First floor has four sash windows, second floor has five. Cast iron fire escape stands against the facade presumably dating from its use as a hospital. Deep wooden eaves are of simple moulding. Hipped, M-shaped roof is of slate, with lead covering the ridge tiles. A large rendered chimney stack is at the north, with nine yellow ceramic chimney pots. To the south a rendered ashlar wall with lean-to roof is edged with a thin tapering stone column.

South elevation overlooks gardens and has at some time become the main entrance. It includes two later blocks added to the east, all with square headed sash windows. The original block has two bays on three storeys and a conservatory across its ground floor, with five cast iron columns. Adjoining this is a later block with three bays on two storeys and pitched slate roof. A further block is one storey with flat roof.

The interior has been much altered to accommodate the building's use as a nursing home, although the original room layouts are apparent from the surviving ceiling cornices. Two large reception rooms on the ground floor retain their grand fireplaces, one of which is of cast iron with fine detailing, painted to resemble carved marble. The main staircase is possibly original. A 1926 Smith Major and Stephens lift is original to the building's first hospital phase. The cellar has wall tiling incorporating a green cross, which is evidence of its use as a mortuary.

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