Dolphin House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.
Dolphin House
- WRENN ID
- still-beam-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphin House, 86, Market Hill, Orford, IP12 2LH
- OS grid reference
- TM 421 499
- Coordinates
- 52.0945, 1.5335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin House is a 16th-century hall house that has been converted into cottages and extended with a shallow front projection in the early 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is rendered, with a tiled roof and a gable facing to the right-hand cross wing. This structure is partly connected to No. 85 Market Hill, known as the Hollies. Dolphin House is two storeys high and has four windows across its façade. There is a hipped, tiled entrance porch made of timber located in the second window range, and an axial stack positioned to the left of the entrance. The gable facing has purlins and verge boards that are not of great age, while there is a square stack at the cross wing, near the junction with the roof of No. 85.
Local climate
Dolphin House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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