The Dolphin Inn
THE DOLPHIN INN, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052172
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Dolphin Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOLPHIN INN, CHAPEL STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12566/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052172
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Dolphin Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOLPHIN INN, CHAPEL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOLPHIN INN, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigginton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38882 33325
Details
WIGGINTON CHAPEL STREET SP3833 (West side) 11/110 The Dolphin Inn 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Dolphin Public House) GV II Inn, now house. Datestone M/IE/1727. Ashlar ironstone to front, regular coursed ironstone rubble to sides and rear; stone slate roof to front, Welsh slate roof to rear. 2 brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 6 windows to first floor, one blocked. Off-centre door to right is 4-panelled with distinctive canopy. 3 windows to left, 2 windows to right. All are wooden mullioned and transomed windows with keystoned flat arches. 4-light stone mullioned window to cellar on left. Windows noted as having elaborate wrought iron casement fasteners. Flat band to first floor. Stone copings. Rear: Stone sundial to right end. Interior: Noted as having plan of kitchen, hall and parlour; spacious cellars with stone barrel vault. History: The Dolphin was built as a farmhouse by James Eden, the principal farmer in the parish in the 1720s. Interior not inspected. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p.160; Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, pp,187-8).
Listing NGR: SP3888233325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 160
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 187-8
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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