Listed Building record MDO15661 - Gulliver's Tavern (formerly Dolphin Inn), Wimborne Road, Kinson, Bournemouth

A former early-mid eighteenth century coaching inn, a now public house. It was extended and altered about 1900. Eighteenth century block of two storeys in painted brick with single storey bay and rear wing. An added two storey stable block, also a single storey wing added c. 1900. There is documentary evidence of the building being used as an inn called the Dolphin and Chequer in 1763.

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.
There is documentary evidence of the building being in use as an Inn (called the Dolphin and Chequer) in 1763 (information supplied by R Haskell).

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

Record last edited

Mar 14 2013 10:51AM