Dolphin Hotel
DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34 AND 35, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178854
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34 AND 35, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178854
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34 AND 35, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOTEL, 34 AND 35, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42035 11352
Details
1. HIGH STREET 5239 (east side)
Nos 34 and 35 (Dolphin Hotel) SU 4211 4/134 14.7.53
II*
2. Street front of circa 1760 with early C19 extension. Some C16 buildings at back and in yard, part brick with stone mullioned window and part timber-framed with plaster infilling. Main front of symmetrical block of 3 storeys and attics with an early C19 north wing. Main part red brick with rusticated stuccoed ground floor and tiled mansard roof. Five dormers. Stone capped parapet and moulded wooden cornice carried round the heads of bow windows and to small central parapet. Rusticated stuccoed ground floor with 2 large segmental 2 storeyed bow windows on flanks to first and second floors. Central segmental arched opening to yard. Two right-hand windows altered to 3 arched windows with secondary entrance. Upper floors have 5 windows and two 3-light curved bow windows. Early C19 balcony to central first floor window with good cast iron railings having anthemion motif. The north wing is of yellow brick with painted brick ground floor. Brick parapet with stone coping. Small moulded cornice at second floor level. Two brick stringcourses between ground and first floor and at first floor cill level. Five sash windows with painted stucco flat arches. Second floor windows all blocked. The hotel dining room on the first floor front has C18 features including a pair of carved stone fireplaces in the manner of Henry Cheere. The entrance hall also has an C18 stone chimney piece in the manner of Cheere. C18 staircase to rear and left of dining room has mid-C18 coved plaster ceilings formerly over rooms.
Listing NGR: SU4200611268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135831
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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