The Dolphins is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House.
The Dolphins
- WRENN ID
- fallow-oriel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dolphins, Lower North Street, Cheddar
- OS grid reference
- ST 457 534
- Coordinates
- 51.27749, -2.77897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphins is a house dating from the early 19th century, constructed of painted rubble with a pantile roof, featuring coped verges and brick end stacks. It has a double pile plan and a symmetrical frontage. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays. The first floor has 16-pane flush mounted sash windows, while the ground floor features late 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars. There is a central door opening with a four-panelled door, the top two panels of which are glazed. A decorative iron and wood "trellis" porch and a metal "tent" canopy hood adorn the entrance. Inside, there are internal window shutters in the left and right ground floor rooms, with the right room containing a fireplace set in an early 19th-century surround with a register grate.
Local climate
The Dolphins receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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