The Dolphin Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Public house. 9 related planning applications.
The Dolphin Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dark-moat-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Dolphin Hotel, the Barbican, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 540
- Coordinates
- 50.36714, -4.1349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin Hotel is an early 19th-century public house, with possible earlier core elements. The front is stuccoed, with a slate mansard roof hidden behind a tall parapet featuring a moulded cornice. There are two dormers, and the building is finished with rendered end stacks. The plan is deep and irregular.
The building is three storeys high with an attic, and has a two-window front. It features horned sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has a segmental arch over a late 19th-century stepped shopfront, with a central two-light window incorporating a twist mullion. Flanking the window are doorways with panelled doors and plaster reliefs of dolphins above.
The interior has not been inspected. The building is reputedly associated with the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Local climate
The Dolphin Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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