Dolphin Public House

The Dolphin Public House is a public house located in Ilminster, featuring a late 17th-century rear wing, an extension from around 1820 on the left, and alterations made around 1970. The building is constructed of rough Ham Hill stone rubble with dressed stone at the front, and the rear wing is made of English-bond brick. It has a pantile roof with brick stacks and an L-shaped plan. The building is two storeys high, with a symmetrical three-window range on the left side of the front. This side features double three-panel doors beneath an early 19th-century projecting stone porch supported by slender Tuscan columns. The porch has simple rectangular motifs on the frieze and a moulded cornice, above which is an 8/8-pane sash window. The side windows are paired sashes with four-over-four panes dating from around 1900.

The gable end of the rear wing, which steps forward to the right, is also made of stone and features stone copings and moulded kneelers. It has one 4/4-pane sash window on each floor, both under concrete lintels. The rear wing, facing east onto Court Barton, is two storeys on the left (south) and tapers to one storey on the right (north). The ends and lower part of the centre are made of coursed rubblestone, while the infill is early 18th-century soft red English-bond brick, which is an early example in this area. The rear wing has 19th-century four-light casements on the left, three-light windows on the rest, and one bricked-up window in the centre, all under wooden lintels.

Inside, the building has been much altered, but the rear wing retains chamfered beams. The roof was not seen. In 1904, this inn featured a date tablet inscribed "HP 1676".