History
Three terraced houses now hotel, c1875, the first three of a terrace of 4. 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. The 4 plots were marked on this site on the 1864 plan, another three houses later added to the W being on a different building plot and to a slightly different design. The 4 houses as built are to a different design than the first 5 on the Esplanade, but to the same design as the middle terrace of six. Deeds of 1872 show that Samuel Pitman of Bath bought these 3 plots and that during 1873 they were sold on, to C S Allen of Tredegar House, Tenby, to W Walkington of Tenby, and to Richard Griffiths, lodging house keeper. Allen's house was to be called Cawdor House, the former name of the third house in this row, but the deed suggests that he bought one of the first two. The plans were to be approved by the 'vendor's architect'. The houses were numbered Nos 7-9, and No 7 was complete in 1876, as a sale of contents was advertised there. In 1878 one of these houses then called Belgrave House, and owned by the builder John Henton, was burnt out, with damage to the adjoining house, called Giltar House. Cawdor House is listed in a 1926 directory as a private house occupied by Mrs Goodeve, but a No 9 is also listed occupied by the Rev Lewis Davies. In 1977 the Giltar Hotel occupied Nos 7-8, and the Cawdor Hotel No 9. No 7 has a name plaque Ethelstone House on the end wall.