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The Dolphin

Date of photo: 2015

Picture source: Google Streetview


The Dolphin was situated at 27 St Gluvias Street. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.
Source: Kate Crombie

Listed building details:
Three attached town houses, at some time a public house, now one house. C17, remodelled C18 and refronted mid C19. Stucco on rubble to front with plinth, end pilasters; eared architraves, sill brackets and moulded mid-floor string; otherwise painted rubble; steep dry slate roofs; rubble stack on right; brick axial stack to rear wing. L-shaped plan including former pair of small houses at right-angles to rear right, former mill leat on its right. 2 storeys; slightly asymmetrical 3-window range. C20 hornless sashes with glazing bars; pilastered doorway slightly left of centre with consoles and dentilled cornice; C20 door. Interior: renovated c1980 when C17 front roof structure was replaced. Features that survive include C17 ovolo-moulded wooden window (resited from ground floor opening of rear wing); C18 dog-leg closed-string staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail; late C17/early C19 bolection-moulded chimneypiece to right-hand chamber.

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