A group of disabled adults have completed a year-long labour of love – a scale model of a Victorian house.

The Victorian Project Group at Monnow Vale Hospital's day resources centre spent 12 months researching, designing and building the model.

The group starting researching for the project on the internet, but soon followed this up by visiting real Victorian houses and trade workshops.

Group co-ordinator Julie James said the project has given members a chance to develop life skills such as budgeting and shopping, while certain tasks also helped improve numeracy and literacy.

Members of the group, who took responsibility for different sections of the house, made some pieces themselves such as the tiny dining table and chairs, wallpapers and coving.

Other fixtures and fittings, including the tiled floors and stained glass windows, were specially commissioned for the project.

Finally, the house was fitted with working lamps and decorated with pictures of Charles Rolls to make it a truly Monmothian home.

The house went on show at Bridges Community Centre on Monday and will be available to view there for the next three weeks.

The group is hoping it can then be displayed in the Shire Hall or Monmouth Museum before being auctioned off.