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Date of photo: 2009	© Copyright Mike Faherty and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
The Gullivers Tavern was situated on Wimborne Road. This grade-II listed pub was built in 1750 and originally known as The Dolphin. It was renamed Gullivers Tavern in 1993, after the local smuggler Isaac Gulliver. It closed in 2018.
Listed building details:
Coaching Inn now public house. Probably early-mid C18, extended and altered c1900 and late C20. Painted Brick, C18 block in Flemish bond; the c1900 added ranges have tile-hung gables with decorative bands. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys, C18 part with loft. 2-bay C18 block with single-storey bay to right and wing to rear right; c1900 range added to rear left, a single-storey added wing set back on left and a 2 storey former stable range added to right, gable-end on. Windows mostly c1900 with wood mullions and transoms, 4-pane casements, and stepped tile sills. C18 block: 2 wide, flat brick-arched windows to each floor, those on 1st floor flanking bracketed pub sign; stepped and cogged eaves; brick end stack to right. Single-storey bay to right under catslide roof has C18 door of 2 raised and fielded panels, and a 2-light windows. Former stable, to right, has 6-light window to 1st floor, barge boards and ridge stack to rear. Single-storey range set back on left has the left end recessed with a pent porch, and to right a large window below gable continued across canted corner with smaller window on its right. Left return of C18 block: 3 light windows to ground and 1st floors, the latter under moulded dripmould, a 16-pane sash with exposed sash box to gable. Rear: C18 wing, the gable end mostly C20 tile-hung, has 3-light window and door to ground floor, 2-light window to 1st floor, and 3-light loft window; ½-hipped roof with cross- ridge stack; one blocked segmental header-brick arched window to left return, other windows inserted. Interior: C18 range: old 2-panel cupboard door with h-hinge below stair to loft, which has fireplace, chamfered butt purlins and one remaining old principal rafter truss.
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