Dolphin House

Dolphin House is a Grade II listed building located on Gluvias Street in Penryn. Originally three attached townhouses, it has also served as a public house and is now a single residence. The building dates back to the 17th century, was remodeled in the 18th century, and refronted in the mid-19th century. The front is finished in stucco over rubble, featuring a plinth, end pilasters, eared architraves, sill brackets, and a moulded mid-floor string, while the rest is painted rubble. It has steep dry slate roofs, with a rubble stack on the right and a brick axial stack on the rear wing. The L-shaped plan includes a former pair of small houses at right angles to the rear right and a former mill leat to the right. The structure is two storeys high and has a slightly asymmetrical three-window range. The windows are 20th-century hornless sashes with glazing bars. A pilastered doorway is slightly left of center, adorned with consoles and a dentilled cornice, leading to a 20th-century door. The interior was renovated around 1980, during which the 17th-century front roof structure was replaced. Surviving features include a 17th-century ovolo-moulded wooden window, relocated from the ground floor opening of the rear wing, an 18th-century dog-leg closed-string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail, and a late 17th to early 19th-century bolection-moulded chimneypiece in the right-hand chamber.