Listed Building record MDO11185 - The Bank House, 5 Church Lane, Blandford Forum

Old Bank House has a service wing stretching out to the North from the west part of the main range. The lower part of the west wall survives from before the fire of 1731 and is probably a vestige of the School House; it is built of thin, variegated bricks and terminates to north and south in stone quoins. Three windows, one blocked, and a doorway with a chamfered stone surround, a segmental head and a stone hood-mould, open in this wall. The upper courses of the west wall belong to the post-fire period like the rest of the house. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1971 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 8853063) The Old Bank House

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 25 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 4 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205507 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2022 1:35PM