A home for the elderly and infirm, intended to replace the workhouse, was opened on the site by David Lloyd George MP as "Plas Maelor" in 1934. (Maelor was a cantref of the Kingdom of Powys). The facility served as an emergency military hospital during the Second World War and then joined the National Health Service as Maelor General Hospital in 1948. The hospital was rebuilt using a nucleus layout and re-opened by the Duchess of Kent as the Wrexham Maelor Hospital in 1986.