Blue Dolphins is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Vernacular dwellings.
Blue Dolphins
- WRENN ID
- unlit-hinge-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- Vernacular dwellings
- Address
- Blue Dolphins, Manorbier Village, Manorbier
- OS grid reference
- SS 065 980
- Coordinates
- 51.64823, -4.79811
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Blue Dolphins is a two-storey house originally designed with three windows, now featuring four, and it faces south with a view of Manorbier Bay. The original three-window arrangement includes a central main door, with a lobby and stairs positioned between two principal rooms. The house does not have a cellar due to the rocky site, and it has been significantly extended at the rear.
The front and side elevations are constructed of rubble masonry and are hung with slates of graded sizes. There are bay windows on either side of the main door and above the upper window of the link section. The other windows are casement type, set in widened openings, and both window types have been renovated in hardwood. The front door consists of four panels, with the lower panels being flush, and it features a rectangular overlight. A flat-roofed porch is supported by thin cast-iron columns that are 10 cm in diameter and tapered with entasis. The house has a slate roof with brickwork end-chimneys and a low wall enclosing the forecourt.
Local climate
Blue Dolphins sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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