The Dolphin is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Public house.
The Dolphin
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-glass-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Dolphin, the Bury, Thorverton
- OS grid reference
- SS 925 020
- Coordinates
- 50.80836, -3.52652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin is a public house that reopened in 1850 after a serious fire and has undergone some 20th-century alterations, including changes to some windows on the left end. The building is whitewashed and rendered with a slate roof that is hipped at the ends, featuring an axial stack on the main block. It stands two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has five windows. An approximately central porch with a hipped slate roof is supported by posts, and there is an additional doorway on the front to the left.
On the first floor, there are three 16-pane sash windows to the left of the porch, one 20-pane sash to the right, and paired 8-pane sashes further to the right. The ground floor has a 16-pane sash window to the left of the porch, a 20-pane sash to the right of the porch, and another 16-pane sash to the right. Additionally, small 20th-century 4-pane windows have been added to the left on the ground floor. The Dolphin is located in the center of Thorverton, facing the Bury and Dinneford Street. Despite some altered windows, the exterior remains very important to the village's character.
Local climate
The Dolphin receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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