Dolphin House
DOLPHIN HOUSE, WESTBURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385699
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin House
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, WESTBURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385699
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, WESTBURY
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 HOUSE, WESTBURY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63790 16314
Details
ST 6316 SHERBORNE WESTBURY
(East side)
689/1/10001
Dolphin House
GV II
House with shop premises. Circa C16 or early C17, remodelled and extended circa C18/19. Stone rubble, rendered at front. Clay plain tile roof. Brick gable-end stack.
PLAN: Long rectangular plan, now two rooms, with a gable-end stack at the right [W] end, and a circa C18 wing behind the the left end. Originally the range might have been open to its 4-bay roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window north front. C20 2 and 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars only. Ground floor C20 shop fronts with glazing bars, and fascia over. C20 doors. At rear [S] gable-ended wing to right and outshuts behind main range to left.
INTERIOR: Right-hand room has unchamfered cross-beam and stone fireplace in corner with chamfered cambered timber bressumer without stops. Left-hand room cross-beams boxed in. 4-bay roof [lightly smoke-blackened], three trusses with cambered morticed collars, morticed apex with diagonally -set trenched ridgepiece and trenched purlins; purlins and common rafters mostly missing. Truss at west end replaced circa late C19.
Listing NGR: ST6379016314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471104
- 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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