Dolphin Hotel

DOLPHIN HOTEL, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097349
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Dolphin Hotel
Statutory Address:
DOLPHIN HOTEL, STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097349
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Dolphin Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
DOLPHIN HOTEL, STATION ROAD

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 HOTEL, STATION ROAD

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Bovey Tracey
National Grid Reference:
SX 81308 78196

Details

SX 81 78 BOVEY TRACEY STATION ROAD Dolphin Hotel

11/261

Hotel. Circa 1850-60. Stuccoed stone on brick. Slate hipped roof with heavy modullion eaves cornice. Stacks turreted below roof level.

Plan: Double depth plan with 2 large principal front rooms and a central entrance hall with a staircase at the back. The internal arrangement at the back is uncertain

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front, the left and right are 2 storey canted bays, the centre a narrow gabled projection, the modillion cornice continued into the gable and around the bays. Reusticated quoins at each end and to the corners of the centre projection. Broad band at first floor level with moduled string above through the first floor window cills. All C19 sash windows, mostly wsith 4 panes, narrower 4-pane sashes in the sides of the bay windows and tripartite sashes in moduled architraves in the bays to the left and right of centre; the ground floor windows have bracketted cills. Central doorway with a flat head rounded corners to its moulded architrave, C19 6-panel door and oplen partico with otagonala granite columns supporting an entablature with a moddillion cornice. Above the partico an ornate cast-iron balcony to the round-headed first floor window in a moduled architrave and with a moduled rounded above.

Listing NGR: SX8130878196

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
84700
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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