Cefn Mably House () 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 Buil ...

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. It is a Grade II

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. The gardens surrounding the house are listed on the

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History

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

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

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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. Courtenay Morgan made the building available to the local health board at a subsidised rate and it opened as a

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

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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, SAVE Britain's Heritage, 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

References

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