Dolphin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1976. Cottage.
Dolphin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-granite-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dolphin Cottage, 37a, Strand Street, Sandwich, CT13 9DN
- OS grid reference
- TR 330 583
- Coordinates
- 51.27629, 1.34023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin Cottage is an early 19th century, two-storey building made of yellow brick. It features three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with intact glazing bars. The windows have flat yellow brick rubbed arches, and there is a semi-circular rubbed arch doorway composed of two rings. The entrance includes two six-panel doors, with the upper squares glazed and the lower panels flush with beads. The building has a tiled roof and a cornice supported by small console brackets. Dolphin Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 33 to 45 (odd).
Local climate
Dolphin Cottage 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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