Licensees :
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ROBERT WOLHAM (?)	1789 - 1794
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JOHN SELF (Died 30th August 1839 - age 85)	1822
NATHANIEL GARRETT	1830 - 1850
HENRY WELHAM Age 31 in 1851 & bricklayer	1850 - 1851
Mrs SARAH WELHAM age 31 in 1854 & bricklayer 1858 & 1863 Died 1868	1854 - 1868
JAMES JACKSON	13.05.1868 - 1878
ALFRED REEVE & whitesmith (Alfred Harold Reeve 1881 Alfred Horatio Reeve 1883)	23.10.1878 - 1900
EDITH MARY REEVE (Married Charles Southgate)	1904 - 1907
CHARLES EDGAR SOUTHGATE	13.11.1907 - 1909
Pleaded guilty 24th March 1909 to aggravated assault on his wife Edith Mary Southgate, on 12th March. Fine of £1 and 10s costs. Mrs Southgate then applied for a separation order which was granted. Mr. Southgate to pay 10s per week for the support of his wife and children.
Mrs EDITH MARY SOUTHGATE (Retired about July 1940 after 63 years at the house)	1912  - 1940
CHARLES WILLIAM MAGGS Died Thursday 8th May 1952 - age 57	c1940- 1952
HILDA MAGGS	10.07.1952
SIDNEY DANIEL SAYER	10.07.1952 (same date as previous)
HARRY STEVENSON HALL	1954 - 04.1965
BILL & KIT WILSON	04.1965 - 06.1966

Built as a merchants house c1520.

Advertised 22nd & 29th March 1740 - For Sale.

Licence not renewed at the Diss Brewster Sessions held Tuesday 14th February 1906. Future of the licence to be determined at the Adjourned licensing Meeting to be held on Tuesday 6th March 1906.

At the adjourned meeting held Wednesday 14th March 1906 Edith Mary Reeve confirmed that average trade was 55 barrels of beer, 117 dozen bottles of beer and 12 gallons of spirit. The house had five bedrooms which were regularly made use of by travellers of the working classes.
Licence renewed.


At the Licensing Session held Wednesday 16th March 1920, the owners Messrs. Youngs, Crawshay & Youngs appealed against the proposed closure of the DOLPHIN on the grounds of redundancy. Another of their houses, the BELL and the Lacons house, the PRINCE OF WALES, were also threatened.
In order to save the DOLPHIN the brewers offered to substitute the HALF MOON.
The DOLPHIN was then selling 120 barrels of beer and 30 gallons of spirits a year.
The Bench accepted the proposal.