Dolphin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House.
Dolphin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-gargoyle-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphin Cottage, 15, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94837, -2.5151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin Cottage is a 19th-century building located on Hound Street. It features a two-storey facade with two window bays and a slate gabled roof. The front is colour washed and has a plinth. On the first floor, there are sash windows that are four panes wide, along with a fixed window that is three panes wide. The doorway is situated at the right end and has a modern square-headed wooden door with a four-centred cover strip. Dolphin Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 9 to 19 (odd).
Local climate
Dolphin Cottage 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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