THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE

THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268758
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268758
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32950 12895

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET 817-1/17/190 (North side) No.91 The Dolphin Public House

GV II

Former station hotel, now public house with flats above. Late 1880s, with C20 extension and internal alterations. Red and grey brick, laid to Flemish bond, with stone dressings. C20 plain clay tiled roof. Grey brick panelled chimneys with red quoins and moulded brick cornice. Free Queen Anne style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, with 3-bay facade facing Railway Street, with 1-bay return, and 2-bay gable facing Mill Road and Hertford East Station (qv). Railway Street facade has outer bays with projecting stone mullion and transom windows, lower lights plain glazed, upper lights leaded, with shouldered cornice and pediment head. Second floor has timber mullion and transom windows with segmental heads recessed in grey brick pilaster surround with rubbed arch. The ground floor has semicircular headed sash windows below arches with bands of red and grey rubbed brick; and a large central stone mullion and transom window with double moulded impost blocks and semicircular arch with alternating dripmould and channelled stone keyblock. Stucco parapet above moulded cornice. Ground floor has projecting arched porch with red brick piers with deep grey band, moulded impost block and elliptical arch with alternating red and grey brick voussoir bands, grey brick fascia, moulded cornice and balcony with turned sandstone baluster and moulded rail. East elevation to Mill Road has single window, at left, first and second floors in recessed grey brick panel, flanked by red brick pilasters. 2 bay gable at right, with Dutch attic with curved stone copings, brick piers with ball finials and central triangular pediment above parapet. 2 windows to first and second floors, each of 3 lights with stone mullions and transoms, all with leaded upper lights, and moulded grey brick spandrels. Grey brick blind panels above, under semicircular arches with alternating red and grey brick voussoir bands, with channelled keyblock supporting moulded cornice at base of pediment and parapet. Projecting pilasters to left and right and in centre, with moulded band at second-floor level and below second-floor window heads. Ground floor has arched entrance at left and C20 flat-roofed single storey bay with sash windows and C20 entrance in centre.

INTERIOR: of bars opened out, with 1970s fittings. Upper floors not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3295012895

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Legacy System number:: 461473
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.