Dolphin House and attached outbuildings and wall

Dolphin House, Dolphin, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376770
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: Dolphin House and attached outbuildings and wall
Statutory Address:: Dolphin House, Dolphin, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376770
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: Dolphin House and attached outbuildings and wall
Statutory Address 1:: Dolphin House, Dolphin, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Dolphin House, Dolphin, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tresco
National Grid Reference:: SV 89093 15352

Details

SV 81 NE 1358/1/10002

TRESCO DOLPHIN TOWN Dolphin House and attached outbuildings and wall II House. 1799. Coursed and squared granite, with ashlar front; hipped dry slate roof with symmetrical end stacks finished in brick. Double-depth plan with rear extension and outbuildings.

Two storeys with attic; symmetrical front, three windows across at first floor. Flat arches with voussoirs over late C19 replacement sashes, with paired 2/2-pane sashes to ground floor and tripartite sashes flanking 3/3-pane sash to ground floor. Hipped roof dormers with horned 2/2-pane sashes. Mid C19 front porch with 'picturesque' effect masonry. Original half-glazed six-panel door with decorative fanlight. Granite lintels over sashes to rear. Later small two-storey rendered addition to rear. Extension to east, of painted roughly coursed granite, incorporated into main house as dining room. Sundial, dated 1800, fixed to east-facing wall of house.

INTERIOR: has retained panelled shutters and doors, including six-panelled door to rear rooms with decorative fanlight.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall with pyramidal gatepiers extends along the lane for approximately 50 metres.

Built as a Missionary House for the S.P.C.K., who had been involved in educational and religious activities on the islands since the mid C18. It was built on Town Hill Field in 1799, on land leased from the Duke of Leeds. The building cost £400 plus £200 on fixtures and fittings.

A complete Late Georgian house, which also has significance within the context of the historical development of the Isles of Scilly.

Listing NGR: SV8909315352

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469056
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.