Dolphin House and Dolphin Crafts Shop, Including Railings to South-West is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. House, shop.

Dolphin House and Dolphin Crafts Shop, Including Railings to South-West

WRENN ID
spare-marble-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
House, shop
Address
Dolphin House and Dolphin Crafts Shop, Including Railings to South-West, Mill Street, Chagford, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 700 875
Coordinates
50.67311, -3.84087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dolphin House and Dolphin Crafts Shop is an early 19th-century building located on the north side of Mill Street in Chagford. It is constructed from plastered granite stone rubble with granite stacks and plastered brick chimney shafts, topped by a slate roof. The building has a three-room plan that faces south-west and is slightly set back from the street. The right end of the structure serves as the shop, with an entrance lobby and staircase positioned between the other two rooms. An axial stack is located between the center room and the shop, while the left room features an end stack. There are service outshots at the rear of the building.

The exterior presents a four-window front with 16-pane sash windows. At the right end, there is a late 19th to early 20th-century shop front that projects slightly forward, featuring round-headed windows, a fascia board with a modillion cornice, and a moulded entablature. The three-window section to the left is symmetrical, centered around a doorway that has a panelled door, an overlight with glazing bars, and panelled reveals. In front of this section, a narrow strip of ground is protected by 19th-century cast iron railings. The building has plain projecting eaves, and its roof runs between those of the neighboring properties.

Inside, there is a significant amount of original joinery detail, including a stick baluster open string staircase. Some parts of the rear of the house are believed to be remnants of an earlier building.

Local climate

Dolphin House and Dolphin Crafts Shop, Including Railings to South-West receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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