Dolphin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dolphin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-steeple-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphin Cottage, the Square, Yarmouth, PO41 0NP
- OS grid reference
- SZ 354 896
- Coordinates
- 50.70568, -1.49921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin Cottage is an early to mid-19th century house in The Square, Yarmouth, altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble with white brick dressings, and has a slate roof with two yellow brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys and has attics, with a three-by-four window arrangement. There are two gabled dormers. The first floor has two casement windows with jalousies, and a 20th-century bay window. On the ground floor, there are four 20th-century bays with leaded lights supported on brackets. A gabled wooden and brick weather porch is on the left side, and a plank door is set within a cambered surround on the right. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Dolphin Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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