Tenby house linked to Middlemarch author seeks holiday let go

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Bruce Sinclair Local Democracy Reporting Service Getty Images A plaque on the building says George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, had been inspired to write a debut novel after staying there The owner of a seafront home which is said to have inspired a prominent Victorian novelist is seeking permission to continue using it in part as a holiday let.

An application to Pembrokeshire Coast National Park said Gwynne House, in Tenby, had been operating as a holiday let prior to its current owner acquiring it in 2021.

The house is Grade-II listed and forms one of a pair of early 19th-Century houses overlooking the town's harbour, in a conservation area.