The Dolphin Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1973. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
The Dolphin Hotel
- WRENN ID
- broken-crypt-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1973
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Dolphin Hotel, 11, South Street, Lydd, TN29 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 043 208
- Coordinates
- 50.95073, 0.90777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin Hotel is an 18th-century timber-framed building that stands two storeys tall and is covered in stucco. It features a tiled roof and has five sashes with intact glazing bars on the first floor. The south half of the ground floor has a modern public house front.
Local climate
The Dolphin Hotel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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