Tenby House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 1951. Monument.
Tenby House Hotel
- WRENN ID
- ancient-flagstone-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SN 135 003
- Coordinates
- 51.67131, -4.69834
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tenby House Hotel is an inn with a painted roughcast exterior and a slate roof, featuring end stacks. It is three storeys high with a four-window front, a thin cornice, a parapet, and a thin sill-band on the second floor. The upper floor has nine-pane sash windows with shouldered surrounds, while the first floor features French windows with hoodmoulds that open onto an iron-railed balcony. This balcony was remodelled around 1998, with the rails either reset or remade to reflect the anthemion and opposed heart pattern originally published by Cottingham in 1823-4. The tented canopy seen in old photographs was reinstated on five uprights with matching ironwork.
On the ground floor, there are three 12-pane sash windows with stucco cornices on scroll brackets, and a doorway in the second bay that is topped with an entablature and cornice supported by two massive Doric columns, with 20th-century double doors. The left side wall has 20th-century windows, and the irregular wall face suggests that an older structure has been rebuilt. The hotel has a long rear wing with a former stable at right angles, both of which have been significantly modernised.
The interior was mostly altered during renovations around 1998. It features a single ground floor front room that opens into the long rear wing. The front windows have pine shutters, and there are two oak beams in the upper end of the rear wing. Another oak beam is located in the ladies' toilet to the left, which also has a large stone slab across a corner, likely once a fireplace lintel, indicating the possibility of an earlier structure on the site. There is a cantilevered staircase in a round well, although the lower flight has been removed.
Local climate
Tenby House Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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