Dolphin Hotel

The Dolphin Hotel dates from approximately 1850-60. It is constructed of stuccoed stone on brick, with a slate hipped roof featuring a heavy modillion eaves cornice. Turreted stacks rise below the roofline.

The building follows a double-depth plan with two large principal front rooms and a central entrance hall containing a staircase at the rear. The internal arrangement at the rear is not entirely clear.

The exterior presents a symmetrical facade of five bays. The left and right bays are two-storey canted bays, while the centre features a narrow gabled projection, with the modillion cornice continuing into the gable and around the bays. Reusticated quoins are present at each end and at the corners of the central projection. A broad band accents the first floor, with a modillion string above the first floor window cills. All windows are 19th-century sash windows, predominantly with four panes. Narrower four-pane sashes are found in the sides of the bay windows, and tripartite sashes are set within modillion architraves in the bays to the left and right of the centre. Ground floor windows have bracketted cills. The central doorway has a flat-headed moulded architrave with rounded corners, and contains a 19th-century six-panel door and a portico with octagonal granite columns supporting an entablature with a modillion cornice. Above the portico is an ornate cast-iron balcony to the round-headed first-floor window, set within a modillion architrave and with a modillion pediment.