Dolphin House

Dolphin House is a house with former shop premises, dating from around the 16th or early 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble, rendered at the front, and has a clay plain tile roof. A brick gable-end stack is found at the west end.

The building has a long rectangular plan, now comprising two rooms, with a circa 18th-century wing located behind the left end. Originally, the building may have been open to a 4-bay roof.

The north front is asymmetrical with four window bays. It features 20th-century 2 and 3-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts with glazing bars and a fascia. 20th-century doors are also present. The rear (south) elevation features a gable-ended wing to the right and outshuts behind the main range to the left.

The right-hand room contains an unchamfered cross-beam and a stone fireplace in the corner, with a chamfered cambered timber bressumer without stops. The cross-beams in the left-hand room are boxed in. The roof is 4-bay, with three trusses featuring cambered morticed collars, a morticed apex with diagonally-set trenched ridgepiece, and trenched purlins; the purlins and common rafters are largely missing. One truss, located at the west end, was replaced around the late 19th century.