Description

ST 6316 SHERBORNE WESTBURY
(East side)
689/1/10001
Dolphin House

GV II

House with shop premises. Circa C16 or early C17, remodelled and extended circa C18/19. Stone rubble, rendered at front. Clay plain tile roof. Brick gable-end stack.
PLAN: Long rectangular plan, now two rooms, with a gable-end stack at the right [W] end, and a circa C18 wing behind the the left end. Originally the range might have been open to its 4-bay roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window north front. C20 2 and 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars only. Ground floor C20 shop fronts with glazing bars, and fascia over. C20 doors. At rear [S] gable-ended wing to right and outshuts behind main range to left.
INTERIOR: Right-hand room has unchamfered cross-beam and stone fireplace in corner with chamfered cambered timber bressumer without stops. Left-hand room cross-beams boxed in. 4-bay roof [lightly smoke-blackened], three trusses with cambered morticed collars, morticed apex with diagonally -set trenched ridgepiece and trenched purlins; purlins and common rafters mostly missing. Truss at west end replaced circa late C19.

Listing NGR: ST6379016314

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665468

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)