Dolphin Public House

ILMINSTER

ST3414 SILVER STREET 1939-1/6/112 (North side) 29/07/76 Dolphin Public House

GV II

Public house. Late C17 rear wing, c1820 extension to the left, and c1970 alterations. Rough Ham Hill stone rubble with dressed stone to the front; English-bond brick rear wing; pantile roof with brick stacks. L-shape plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to left of front. This has double 3-panel doors under early C19 projecting stone porch with slender Tuscan columns, simple rectangular motifs to the frieze, and moulded cornice, below an 8/8-pane sash window. Windows to the sides are paired sashes with c1900 four/four-panes to each half. The gable end of the rear wing steps forward to the right and is also of stone with stone copings and moulded kneelers; it has one 4/4-pane sash to each floor under concrete lintels. The rear wing, facing east onto Court Barton, is 2 storeys to the left (south), tapering uphill to one storey to the right (north); it is coursed rubblestone to each end and lower part of centre, infilled with C18 soft red English-bond brick, an early example in this area; it has C19 four-light casements to the left, 3-lights to the rest, and one to the centre, bricked-up, all under wooden lintels. INTERIOR: much altered, but rear wing has chamfered beams. Roof not seen. In 1904 this inn had a date tablet inscribed "HP 1676".

Listing NGR: ST3598214574