Dolphin Inn
DOLPHIN INN, 256, HEIGHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1372818
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Inn
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN INN, 256, HEIGHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1372818
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN INN, 256, HEIGHAM 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 INN, 256, HEIGHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 21950 09766
Details
TG 2109 NE HEIGHAM STREET, HEIGHAM 6/390 (north side) 26.2.54 No. 256 (Dolphin Inn) GV II* Formerly Bishop Hall's Palace, now an Inn. 1587 (?) for Richard Brown, possibly incorporating earlier features. 1595 formerly on gable (Pevsner); 1615 on right wing. Much C20 restoration after war damage. Knapped flint studded with stones and with ashlar dressings; brick details to left gable-fronted wing; flint and brick rubble on left side wall under C20 applied timberwork. Plain tile roof (pantiled to left); 3 brick chimneys (rebuilt). L-plan. 2 storeys; 5 first-floor windows to right wing; left wing has 2 storeys and attic. Central C20 ribbed and studded door retains its C17 moulded 4-centred arch and pediment under a C20 tiled porch. Canted 2-storey bays to right and left have 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows (mostly restored) flanked by similar smaller windows with hood moulds. Stone coping to parapet. Left wing has C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded casements and 2 small mediaeval-style windows with brick dressings (repaired) in gable front. 2 angle buttresses (1960 on stone).Initials B/R (repaired) in brick diaper. Interior (not inspected during re-survey) is noted as having C16 mantelpiece and carvings, N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: North East Norfolk and Norwich, Harmondsworth 1962, 284.
Listing NGR: TG2195009766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North East Norfolk and Norwich, (1962), 284
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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