Dolphin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 March 1961. House.

Dolphin Cottage

WRENN ID
shadowed-buttress-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 March 1961
Type
House
Address
Dolphin Cottage, 1 Bridge Street, Tenby, SA70 7BU
OS grid reference
SN 135 004
Coordinates
51.67162, -4.69795
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Dolphin Cottage is a terraced house dating from the 18th century, featuring white-painted stucco that mimics ashlar stonework, a steep slate roof, and red brick end stacks, with the right stack positioned against the taller side wall of Cofion Books. The roofline is continuous with the adjacent No 2 on the left. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a double-fronted design.

All the woodwork has been renewed since the listing in 1977. The upper floor has two gabled windows that break the eaves, both fitted with 12-pane sash windows, although the sills are set higher than those of the adjoining No 2, suggesting possible alterations. On the first floor, there is a 12-pane sash window on the left and a tripartite 4-12-4-pane sash window on the right, with the sill slightly elevated. The ground floor features a 12-pane sash window to the left and a rectangular bay window at the front, which has a 16-pane sash and a 4-pane side light on the left, continuing to the side wall of the premises occupied by Cofion. The bay window has a slate roof that is hipped to the left.

The central doorway is framed by a timber doorcase with fluted pilasters and a panelled frieze between brackets, which is a 20th-century imitation of the original doorcase, and it contains a 20th-century panelled door. The building stands on a raised plinth. Inspection of the interior is not available.

Local climate

Dolphin Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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