Was one of these seafront villas that of the socialite banker Edward Clodd (1840-1930), 'Strafford House', where he was wont to entertain literary guests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Clodd
Anthony Hope (Memories and Notes, 1927) tells how he, Hardy and other notaries sailed from Aldeburgh in Clodd's yacht to visit poet Edward FitzGeralds's grave at Bredfield.