Saxonbury Nursing Home (formerly Haverang House) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 November 2005. Nursing home.

Saxonbury Nursing Home (formerly Haverang House)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 November 2005
Type
Nursing home
Address
Saxonbury Nursing Home (formerly Haverang House), Abergavenny
OS grid reference
SO 303 152
Coordinates
51.83116, -3.01263
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building, now known as Saxonbury Nursing Home and formerly Haverang House, was constructed from yellow brick with red brick banding and has a red tile roof. It is a large, rectangular block facing southwest, with a lower block and the main entrance on the northeast (street) elevation.

The street elevation features three storeys on the rear of the main block. The central bay has a gabled entrance porch projecting at an angle from the corner, set on a stone base, with timber framing above. A mullion window sits above the porch, illuminating the hall and stairwell; another mullion-and-transom window is above that, performing the same function. Between these windows are four terracotta relief panels arranged in two sets, separated by a thin red brick band. Above the upper window is a shaped gable with stone dressings, a central terracotta relief, and a spike finial at the apex. The right-hand bay has a two-over-two pane sash window on each floor, the top one being smaller and with a triangular gable featuring a terracotta relief. The left-hand bay is partially obscured by the lower wing, but otherwise mirrors this design. The lower wing has a canted bay to its left with a two-over-two pane sash flanked by one-over-one panes. Above is a smaller two-over-two pane sash and a small triangular gable with terracotta relief. To the right of this bay is a single one-over-one pane sash with a blind wall above, another gable with a window in the right return above the porch. The roof is hipped and has lost all of its chimney stacks.

The garden elevation is three storeys high with six windows. The left-hand side has a two-storey canted bay with a 1+2+1 window arrangement, all two-over-two-over-two panes, with plain two-over-two panes above. The centre of this bay rises to a triple sash with one-over-one panes within a shaped Flemish gable, with tiled roofs over the canted sides. To the right are paired two-over-two pane sashes on two floors, and smaller paired two-over-two sashes on the third floor, which support a small triangular gable. Both gables have terracotta relief panels. The return elevations have more plain sash windows, as well as the truncated chimney stacks. Modern two-storey wings have been added to the left, and a one-storey wing to the right.

The interior retains an open-well staircase with turned balusters and newel posts in a style reminiscent of the late 17th century, but is otherwise plain and has been altered for its current use as a care home. The staircase windows contain original coloured glass.

Local climate

Saxonbury Nursing Home (formerly Haverang House) receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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