List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: DOLPHIN HOTEL
List Entry Number: 1238666
Location
DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34, HIGH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Somerset
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Wincanton
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 24-Mar-1961
Date of most recent amendment: 25-Jan-1985
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 416235
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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History
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Details
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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
Selected Sources
Books and journalsSweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
Map
National Grid Reference: ST7150628678
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