Dolphin Hotel
DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238666
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238666
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34, HIGH 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 HOTEL, 34, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7150628678
Details
ST7128
8/166
WINCANTON CP
HIGH STREET (South side)
No 34 (Dolphin Hotel)
(formerly listed as Dolphin Inn)
24.3.61
GV II
Coaching inn. Mid C18. Probably by Nathaniel Ireson. Local stone rubble with ashlar dressings, all painted; plain clay tile roof with simple gable and abutment; brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 6 bays. Plinth, rusticated pilasters; later 4-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds to first floor; to bays 1, 4 and 5 ground floor similar sashes in Gibbsian surrounds with triple keystones: left of bay 1 a former doorway, now blocked, with matching surround, and a matching surviving door bay 3; to bay 2 a wide 6-pane window with Gibbsian jambs and plain architraved segmental arch with single keystone; to bay 4 large segmental coaching access archway, with rusticated surround and single keystone, retaining probably the original heavy boarded gates: hanging sign on wrought iron brackets between bays 4 and 5 first floor.
Much altered to side and rear and internally.
Building date not known - recorded as the Rainbow Inn in 1774, the name being changed to the Dolphin in 1794 (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7150628678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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