Belle Vue | Tenby

A grade II Listed Conversion. KinverKreations designed and gained planning and building regulation approval for the project. 

The main house required a top down renovation and refurbishment. Kinver Kreations Ltd - then went on to tender and project manage the construction phase - to a successful completion in Jan 2025.

The main house also had a new top floor dormer and we migrated the kitchen from the basement to the main floor, creating a new door linking to the garden.

The Castellated Structure which sits on the quay side and under the Belle Garden was a derelict, wet and cave like structure. These were converted into ancillary accommodation, with new windows capturing the sight and sounds of the beach and sea. Internal mezzanines were formed to make use of the vaulted & curved ceilings. 

Belle Vue and the Castellated Structure are both grade 2 listed buildings located within the coastal town

of Tenby and lie within the Conservation Area. The nearby beach is a Site of Special Scientific Interest

and Special Area of Conservation. Tenby probably dates to the early Christian period and became an

important trading port during medieval times. During the C18/19th it evolved into a popular seaside

report and rapidly expanded with buildings generally following a Regency style. The town has a strong

sense of place. The application site has been recorded in drawings, photographs and postcard’s since

the C19th owing to scenic quality with stone harbour, small fishing boats and sandy beaches set against

rocky cliffs and Georgian seafront. Neither building has changed much over the years.

Belle Vue

The house is located on the north side of Crackwell Street overlooking north beach and the

harbour. It was built c.1790 as a merchant’s house but subdivided and raised in height in c.1840’s to

create a pair of terraced houses. It was briefly acquired and altered by the Conservation Club in the early

C20th. The exterior shares common characteristics with other C18/19th buildings in the Tenby

Conservation Area with slated pitched set back to back behind parapets, chimneys to the gables,

painted timber sash windows and panelled doors, painted render with some openings highlighted in

moulded surrounds.

The Castellated Structure

This building is located at the west end of the harbour at the bottom of the cliff beneath Belle Vue.

There is a date plaque of 1848 on the north elevation pier but little appears to be known about the

structure. It is described as smoke house due to vents at high level but is unlikely to have been in use

for long and has been used as a boat store/workshop since the early C20th.

The north elevation has two arches with corresponding barrel vaults internally. The two storey arches

have dressed stone with raised keystones and an impost band with three square openings in the

spandrels. The eastern square has a small square aperture, central one has been infilled and western

opening has a with cannon like protrusion. These arched entrances were later infilled with stone and

this stands slightly proud due to the battered face of the building. The infill contains four rectangular

painted timber windows, possibly from different periods. Each has three fixed lights under flat heads,

timber lintels to the upper and concrete lintels to the lower level. The upper floor windows are narrower

and taller with brickwork in the reveals. The lower windows have a thick concrete cill into which vertical

round iron bars have been cast. The arch infills have been heavily pointed with a parged like finish with

full render cover at high level and the large mortar joints stand out against the finer joints of the original

structure.