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Latitude: 51.0567 / 51°3'24"N
Longitude: -2.4079 / 2°24'28"W
OS Eastings: 371506
OS Northings: 128678
OS Grid: ST715286
Mapcode National: GBR MZ.FPRS
Mapcode Global: FRA 56VB.7Q9
Plus Code: 9C3V3H4R+MR
Entry Name: Dolphin Hotel
Listing Date: 24 March 1961
Last Amended: 25 January 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238666
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416235
ID on this website: 101238666
Location: Wincanton, Somerset, BA9
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Wincanton
Built-Up Area: Wincanton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Hotel
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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
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