Dolphin Public House

DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, FISH WHARF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096829
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:
Dolphin Public House
Statutory Address:
DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, FISH WHARF
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096829
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:
Dolphin Public House
Statutory Address 1:
DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, FISH WHARF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, FISH WHARF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TG5257706049

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206 FISH WHARF
839-1/6/33 (East side)
Dolphin Public House

II

Formerly known as: Fish Wharf Refreshment Rooms FISH WHARF.
Public house. 1900 and 1904. By JW Cockrill. Red brick over
concrete and decorative tiles in a method patented by Cockrill
in 1893. Interlocking roof tiles. 2 storeys; 9-window range in
9 bays. 7th bay (from left) brought forward under a gablet
with rusticated tile decoration. Arched and rusticated door to
ground floor. Alternate bays to left with arched and
rusticated segmental doorways. Windows boarded over at time of
Review, under brick and tile rusticated segmental arches.
Decorative panels above with faience tiles representing
dolphins and other marine subjects. 9 first-floor windows
under stilted tiled arches. Hipped roof with 2 stacks.
Single-storey wing returns to east, also with alternating
segmental doorways and windows, similarly rusticated. Parapet.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TG5257706049

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
468467
Legacy System:
LBS

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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