Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dolphin Hotel (south part only)
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mold, Flintshire, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Mold
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16903, -3.14402
- Cadw reference
- 377
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On street line opposite the Parish Church.
History
The building has been a hotel since at least 1869.
Exterior
Early C19 Georgian, 3 storey, 4 window front. Flemish bond brick with dark headers. Gently pitched slate roof, simply moulded stone eaves cornice, brick end stacks, two set on rear pitch.
Shallow upper sash to 12 pane 2nd floor windows, 16 pane 1st floor windows. Painted stone sills and lintels. Asymmetric ground floor with round arched doorway offset to right. Lead cames divide fanlight into segments over modern door. Doorway flanked on right by modern window on left by 3 cross windows with later rectangular lead cames, 2 3-lights flanking a 2 light.
Various later accretions to rear elevation.
Nearby in the register
- 90 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard of St. Mary's Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Crest HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wilding Civil Engineering Ltd. and Powell Public RelationsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.