Dolphin Public House
DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208642
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Public House
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208642
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER 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:
- DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 35984 14573
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3414 SILVER STREET 1939-1/6/112 (North side) 29/07/76 Dolphin Public House
GV II
Public house. Late C17 rear wing, c1820 extension to the left, and c1970 alterations. Rough Ham Hill stone rubble with dressed stone to the front; English-bond brick rear wing; pantile roof with brick stacks. L-shape plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to left of front. This has double 3-panel doors under early C19 projecting stone porch with slender Tuscan columns, simple rectangular motifs to the frieze, and moulded cornice, below an 8/8-pane sash window. Windows to the sides are paired sashes with c1900 four/four-panes to each half. The gable end of the rear wing steps forward to the right and is also of stone with stone copings and moulded kneelers; it has one 4/4-pane sash to each floor under concrete lintels. The rear wing, facing east onto Court Barton, is 2 storeys to the left (south), tapering uphill to one storey to the right (north); it is coursed rubblestone to each end and lower part of centre, infilled with C18 soft red English-bond brick, an early example in this area; it has C19 four-light casements to the left, 3-lights to the rest, and one to the centre, bricked-up, all under wooden lintels. INTERIOR: much altered, but rear wing has chamfered beams. Roof not seen. In 1904 this inn had a date tablet inscribed "HP 1676".
Listing NGR: ST3598214574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383474
- 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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