Description

ST7128
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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531712

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)