DOLPHIN INN

DOLPHIN INN, WIMBORNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232929
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: DOLPHIN INN
Statutory Address:: DOLPHIN INN, WIMBORNE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232929
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: DOLPHIN INN
Statutory Address 1:: DOLPHIN INN, WIMBORNE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DOLPHIN INN, WIMBORNE ROAD

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 06965 96594

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:

SZ 0696 + 0796 WIMBORNE ROAD 6/72 (South side) Kinson Dolphin Inn

II

Coaching Inn now public house. Probably early-mid C18, extended and altered c1900 and late C20. Painted Brick, C18 block in Flemish bond; the c1900 added ranges have tile-hung gables with decorative bands. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys, C18 part with loft. 2-bay C18 block with single-storey bay to right and wing to rear right; c1900 range added to rear left, a single-storey added wing set back on left and a 2 storey former stable range added to right, gable-end on. Windows mostly c1900 with wood mullions and transoms, 4-pane casements, and stepped tile sills. C18 block: 2 wide, flat brick-arched windows to each floor, those on 1st floor flanking bracketed pub sign; stepped and cogged eaves; brick end stack to right. Single-storey bay to right under catslide roof has C18 door of 2 raised and fielded panels, and a 2-light windows. Former stable, to right, has 6-light window to 1st floor, barge boards and ridge stack to rear. Single-storey range set back on left has the left end recessed with a pent porch, and to right a large window below gable continued across canted corner with smaller window on its right. Left return of C18 block: 3 light windows to ground and 1st floors, the latter under moulded dripmould, a 16-pane sash with exposed sash box to gable. Rear: C18 wing, the gable end mostly C20 tile-hung, has 3-light window and door to ground floor, 2-light window to 1st floor, and 3-light loft window; ½-hipped roof with cross- ridge stack; one blocked segmental header-brick arched window to left return, other windows inserted.

Interior: C18 range: old 2-panel cupboard door with h-hinge below stair to loft, which has fireplace, chamfered butt purlins and one remaining old principal rafter truss.

There is documentary evidence of the building being in use as an Inn (called the Dolphin and Chequer) in 1763 (information supplied by R Haskell).

Listing NGR: SZ0696596594

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

Legacy System number:: 101935
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.