Dolphin Dolphin and Neptune with Attached Rear Boundary Wall Neptune is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Cottage.

Dolphin Dolphin and Neptune with Attached Rear Boundary Wall Neptune

WRENN ID
last-cloister-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1993
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SY 683 734
Coordinates
50.55996, -2.44786
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dolphin and Neptune are two cottages that were likely once a single property, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The buildings are rendered with a slate roof and feature a symmetrical front facing the street. They have a double-depth plan, which includes a smaller back range that has become a separate property known as Dolphin. The cottages are two storeys high with an attic and have two windows on the front. They feature 4-pane sash windows and a central 19th-century flush 4-panel part-glazed door. The roof has raised verges and rendered stacks.

The right side of the building has a plain gable for Neptune, followed by a lower plain gable for Dolphin, which has a 20th-century door and a small 4-pane sash window at ground level. The rear includes several 4-pane sashes and two single-storey lean-to wings, all surrounded by a high stone boundary wall. There is a central rendered ridge stack on the Dolphin property. This site is now somewhat isolated and may be one of the few remaining structures from the great storm of 1824, which caused significant damage in the area.

Local climate

Dolphin Dolphin and Neptune with Attached Rear Boundary Wall Neptune receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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