The Dolphin Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Inn. 6 related planning applications.

The Dolphin Inn

WRENN ID
standing-loggia-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1986
Type
Inn
Address
The Dolphin Inn, Bow Street, Langport
OS grid reference
ST 417 266
Coordinates
51.03657, -2.83268
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Dolphin Inn is an inn with an early 19th-century front that conceals an older building. It features a brick facade in English garden wall bond, while the rest is made of lias stone rubble, all of which is colourwashed. The roof is clay pantiled and hipped at the east end, with a plain gable at the west. There are brick chimney stacks at both ends. The inn is two storeys high and has three bays. It has sash windows with 16 panes in plain openings, topped with gauged brick flat heads. The central doorway is semi-circular arched and contains a pair of part-glazed doors from the 20th century. The Dolphin Inn was first mentioned in 1778.

Local climate

The Dolphin Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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