Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
26400
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Swn y Don
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213509
Northing
200294
Street Side
N
Location
Facing the sea near the junction of The Paragon and St Mary's Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of a mirrored pair of C19 houses altered in 1904 in picturesque style with 2-storey balconies and windows with small-paned top sashes (similar to those in Frogmore Villas, Lower Frog Street). The remodelling was probably by E Glover Thomas, architect of Frogmore Villas, who advertised alterations to Gunfort Houses, The Paragon, in 1903. Called Roma in 1951 and the Tralee Private Hotel in 1977, now divided into the Paragon Private Hotel and Swn y Don private house, but in one ownership.
Exterior
The right hand of a pair of seafront houses, now hotel and house. Painted stucco front to both houses of 3 storeys and attic, 4 bays with windows of 2 middle bays grouped close together. Slate roof with brick end stacks. Modillion cornice with frieze below and parapet above. Long and short raised quoins. Cast-iron rainwater head below cornice dated 1904. Sash windows of unusual form: plate glass with double-row of tiny panes in upper part of top sash, the upper row panes arch-headed. Four dormers with sashes, timber bargeboards and finials. On 2 upper floors, windows are segmental headed with surrounds and keystones, the middle two narrower. On first floor the middle two are full length French windows and outer ones are very wide tripartite sashes. Ground floor has two timber canted bay windows with similar sashes and paired centre doors with elliptical-arched heads. Doors are up broad flight of steps. Door to Swn y Don has 5 fielded panels and glazed sidelights. Moulded doorframes have dentil cornices and a small pedimented panel above.
Fine 2-storey timber veranda with sloping roof up to 2nd floor sills. Matching timber area railings each side of entrance steps. Veranda is 5-bay to first floor with wider centre bay, chamfered posts with capitals and curved eaves brackets. Ground floor has 2 narrow bays corresponding to the 2 doorways and a very broad bay each side, with similar posts and curved brackets. Railings at both levels have turned balusters between horizontal rails just below handrail and just above floor level.
Interior
Inner lobbies with glazed screens and patterned tile floor. Decorative glazed tiles to side walls of lobby, to a flower and vase pattern.
Reason for designation
Included as one of a prominent seafront pair of houses with unusual Edwardian decorative timber detail.
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