The New Dolphin Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. A C18 Coaching inn.
The New Dolphin Hotel
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rubblework-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Coaching inn
- Address
- The New Dolphin Hotel, High Street, Honiton, EX14 1LS
- OS grid reference
- ST 162 006
- Coordinates
- 50.79966, -3.18956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The New Dolphin Hotel is a well-known coaching inn located on the north side of High Street. This building dates back to the 18th century and features three stories with four sash windows, which currently do not have glazing bars. The front is plastered and includes a wide porch supported by elongated Tuscan columns leading to a central carriageway. There are added square bays on the ground floor and a band on the second floor, topped with a parapet and covered with slate roofing. The hotel was originally the medieval Manor House of the Courtenays. The New Dolphin Hotel, along with Nos 103 to 107 (odd), Nos 111 to 115 (odd), and Nos 119 to 125 (odd), is part of a group of listed buildings.
Local climate
The New Dolphin Hotel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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