The Dolphin Public House
THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268758
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Dolphin Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03120/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268758
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Dolphin Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOLPHIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 91, RAILWAY 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461473
- 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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