Dolphin Cottage (Number 31) and Number 33 is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1969. Terraced houses.
Dolphin Cottage (Number 31) and Number 33
- WRENN ID
- over-oriel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1969
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Dolphin Cottage (Number 31) and Number 33, Penny Street, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 633 993
- Coordinates
- 50.78984, -1.10255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin Cottage (Number 31) and Number 33 are two houses dating from the late 18th century. Number 31 is stuccoed, while Number 33 is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond. Number 31 features a roof made of interlocking tiles with a hipped right side and a rendered stack on the left. Number 33 has a plain tile roof. Both houses are three storeys tall and consist of two bays.
The entrance to Number 31 is on the right and includes a door with six flush panels, two of which are glazed. This door is flanked by pilasters with fluted capitals and has a frieze with a simple moulded pediment above, featuring a lion's head and scroll relief in the tympanum. There is a 20th-century lantern to the left of the door. Above the entrance, there are 12-pane sash windows on the first and second floors, set under a cambered arch on the second floor. To the left, there is a three-storey tripartite shallow canted bay window with 12-pane sashes, a frieze, and a shallow cornice on the ground and first floors, along with boarded aprons below the sills and a frieze and cornice on the bay roof.
Number 33 has a central six-panelled door, which is flanked by reeded pilasters with roundels on the caps and a shallow pediment above. On either side of the door and on the first and second floors, there are 16-pane sash windows set under flat rendered arches. Additionally, Number 33 features a brick dentil band above the second floor and two shallow hipped dormers. Both houses have a stone-coped parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dolphin Cottage (Number 31) and Number 33 receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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