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
6148
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1961
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The Esplanade Hotel and railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213424
Northing
200214
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on the corner of The Esplanade and St Florence Parade.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Terraced house now hotel, c1874, the first house of a terrace of 5. The South Cliff estate was laid out for building on a grid pattern in 1864 by J H Shipway, engineer, on former Tuder estate land, sold to Dr J M Sutton of Bloomfield, Narberth. Shipway's elevations were not used, the architect may have been F Wehnert, who did similar schemes for Milford Haven and Llandudno. The Esplanade was the principal seafront terrace, built up by 1880, but little seems to have been built before 1870. Four plots were marked on the site of these 5 houses on the 1864 plan, the 5 houses as built are to a different design than the rest of the Esplanade. The deeds show that this was originally Worcester House, leased in 1874 by J.C. Webster, barrister, to W Stewart, barrister, to complete and make habitable. Occupied in late C19 by G Sinnett, blacksmith (of 10 Croft Terrace in 1881), and by Sinnett family to 1933. Rear wing to St Florence Parade added c1985, all the external stucco mouldings were restored in timber c1996.
Exterior
Terraced house, now hotel, painted stucco and slate roof with stuccoed end stacks. Three storeys, attic and basement, two-window range, with full-height canted bay to left and single window each floor to right. Parapet broken for 2 stucco flat-headed dormers and ornamented with applied stucco panels each side of each window. Panels have moulded surrounds with rebated corners. Windows are 4-pane sashes mainly, 2-pane narrower sashes to canted sides of bay. Cambered heads to attic windows, moulded surrounds with keystones to second floor windows, the upper corners of the reveals rounded, cambered window heads to first floor with stucco pilasters and moulded heads, ground floor windows have unusual 3-sided heads in surrounds with pilasters and moulded stilted square head. Cambered headed basement windows. Moulded cornice between second and third floors, slight step under parapet. Entrance is in right side to St Florence Parade, gable wall stepped forward to right, one-window range each side, with porch in angle. Area iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials.
Interior
Ground floor largely altered.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a prominent later C19 seafront terrace.
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