page_title: Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital Viewed from the B4236. The local newspaper reported in December 2008 that the last residents had moved out of Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital for people with learning disabilities, ending more than 50 years of long-stay care at the site near Cwmbran. The Grange site still houses an assessment and treatment centre for learning disability and healthcare needs, and remains in use as an administrative headquarters for Gwent Healthcare Trust. It is also likely that part of the site will be used for housing development, though until the Welsh Assembly formally approves the trust's proposal, its future remains unclear.
context_page_description: Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital is a medical facility providing assessment and treatment services for people with learning disabilities. It is located to the east of Cwmbran on the B4236 road towards Caerleon to the south-east. It is managed by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The main building is a Grade II listed building.
context_section_description: The site was previously occupied by Llanfrechfa Grange, a country house which was built for Charles Prothero in the middle of the 19th century. It was "a large mansion in the Elizabethan style, pleasantly situated in a park of about 30 acres and overlooking the Valley". It passed to Francis Johnstone Mitchell in 1860, the Cleeve family in 1913, Sir John Cecil Davies in 1921, Elsie Louise Llewelyn in 1922 and to a property developer in 1933.
  In 1953, Llanfrechfa Grange started providing long term residential accommodation for people with learning disabilities. In the early 1960s it had more than 500 beds, provided in a series of accommodation blocks called villas. Although it still had more than 300 residents in 1983, following the introduction of Care in the Community shortly thereafter, the hospital went into a period of decline and it finally closed to inpatients in 2008. A Learning Disabilities Assessment and Treatment Unit was kept open at the site.
  In 2017 work to create and construct Grange University Hospital, a new specialist critical care centre, started on the site.
caption: Entrance to the site
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