The Dolphin Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Dolphin Inn
- WRENN ID
- lunar-entrance-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Dolphin Inn, High Street, Ilchester, BA22 8NH
- OS grid reference
- ST 521 226
- Coordinates
- 51.00136, -2.6832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin Inn is an 18th-century inn located on High Street, with a 19th-century extension. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with flat stone dressings. The roofs are made of Welsh slate and feature plain gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays plus an additional three bays from the extension.
The main block includes a plinth, string course, and eaves course, with rusticated quoins. It has sash windows set in keystoned architraves, with 16 panes in the first bay and the upper part of the third bay. The lower part of the third bay and the upper part of the second bay each have 12 panes, while the upper bay of the second is set in a segmental keystoned arch. The lower part of the second bay features a six-panel door within an architrave topped with a segmental pediment on console brackets. A hanging sign is displayed across the upper centre window on an elaborate wrought-iron bracket.
The extension has a plinth and sash windows in plain openings, with 16 panes above and 12 panes below, including two windows in each outer lower bay and a plain central doorway. The interior has not been seen. The inn was already open by 1859, according to the Victoria County History.
Local climate
The Dolphin Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 63% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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