Description

SX 81 78 BOVEY TRACEY STATION ROAD
Dolphin Hotel

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Hotel. Circa 1850-60. Stuccoed stone on brick. Slate hipped roof with heavy
modullion eaves cornice. Stacks turreted below roof level.

Plan: Double depth plan with 2 large principal front rooms and a central entrance
hall with a staircase at the back. The internal arrangement at the back is uncertain

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front, the left and right are 2 storey
canted bays, the centre a narrow gabled projection, the modillion cornice continued
into the gable and around the bays. Reusticated quoins at each end and to the
corners of the centre projection. Broad band at first floor level with moduled
string above through the first floor window cills. All C19 sash windows, mostly
wsith 4 panes, narrower 4-pane sashes in the sides of the bay windows and tripartite
sashes in moduled architraves in the bays to the left and right of centre; the
ground floor windows have bracketted cills. Central doorway with a flat head
rounded corners to its moulded architrave, C19 6-panel door and oplen partico
with otagonala granite columns supporting an entablature with a moddillion cornice.
Above the partico an ornate cast-iron balcony to the round-headed first floor
window in a moduled architrave and with a moduled rounded above.

Listing NGR: SX8130878196

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389617

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)