Dolphin House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Dolphin House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-stone-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphin House, Priors Hill Road, Aldeburgh, IP15 5EP
- OS grid reference
- TM 459 565
- Coordinates
- 52.15231, 1.59406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin House is a house built in 1926 by Oliver Hill. It is constructed of grey brick and features a roof made of black-glazed pantiles with a central battered stack. The building has a rectangular plan and consists of two storeys and an attic.
The main facade is highlighted by a full-height central gable. On the ground floor, there are two mid-20th century plate-glass windows, while the first floor has three 2-light transomed casements. To the right and left of the gable on the ground floor are doorways. The south-east and north-west gable ends are intricately shaped with four tiers of ovolo curves, which are marked by deep tumbling. Each gable has two 2-light cross casements on the first floor, although the north-west gable's windows have been blocked to accommodate the addition of a single-storey utility building. Each gable also features one similar attic window, and the south-east gable is marked with the date 1926. The interior has not been inspected.
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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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