Keith Griffiths, award-winning Welsh architect

As my siblings were retiring, my parents were getting older and my children enjoyed St Davids, I bought a property here: Penrhiw Priory. We refurbished it as an eight bedroom house for the family. Eventually we rented it out so it wouldn't fall into decay, then started letting it out as a holiday home. It was too big for this, though, and it rapidly turned into a hotel. 

While we were doing that, I was offered Roch Castle, which was too good an opportunity to turn down. We bought it and turned it into a luxurious six-bedroom hotel. In all, we had 14 rooms - not enough to be sustainable financially as hotels. However, I had old school friends in St Davids. One owned the old Twr Y Felin hotel and the other owned the field in front of it. I phoned them up and bought both off them to refurbish into one luxurious hotel. 

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