Dolphin House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House. 3 related planning applications.
Dolphin House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-finial-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphin House, Goudhurst Road, Horsmonden, TN12 8JU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 701 404
- Coordinates
- 51.138, 0.43068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin House is an 18th-century house located on Goudhurst Road in Horsmonden. The building features a ground floor of red and blue chequered brick, while the first floor is tile hung, topped with a plain tiled roof. It consists of two parallel ranges, standing two storeys high with an attic, and is set on a plinth that has a corbelled brick string course at the first floor level. The roof has a moulded wooden eaves cornice, two hipped dormers, and chimney stacks at both ends.
The front of the house has a regular arrangement of windows, including two tripartite wooden casements and a central single light casement on the first floor, and two tripartite sash windows on the ground floor. The central entrance door has six panels, with the top two being glazed, and is topped by a pediment-shaped hood supported by columns with palmate capitals, which was added in the late 20th century. The rear range mirrors the detailing found on the front.
Local climate
Dolphin House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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