Dolphin Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Dolphin Inn
- WRENN ID
- keen-gutter-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Dolphin Inn, Old Market Street, Thetford, IP24 2EQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 874 827
- Coordinates
- 52.41034, 0.75412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin Inn is a public house dated 1694. It is constructed of flint, ashlar, and brick, with the ashlar blocks laid in checker patterns. The building has pantiled roofs. The main section has two storeys and three bays, featuring a plinth course with moulded red brick coping, and a moulded red brick platband between the floors. The central entrance is a four-panelled door sheltered by a hood with a two-light casement window on either side. The ground floor also has two two-light cross casement windows, while the first floor has two similar casements separated by a two-light mullioned window. The date 1694 is picked out in stone at first-floor level. A gabled roof is topped by a central stack. A two-storey rear cross wing has two-light casements and one sash window. It also has a gabled pantile roof. Inside, the west ground-floor room contains a bridging beam with sunk-quadrant moulded detail. The east ground-floor room features a rebuilt corner fireplace.
Local climate
Dolphin Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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