Listed Building record MDO11243 - Stour House, 41 East Street, Blandford Forum

(ST 88680631) STOUR HOUSE, occupies the site of the most easterly building in the street to be destroyed in the 1731 fire. The N. range has four bays. On the E. it is separated from the next house by a narrow driveway; on the W. it is flanked by Common Lane, which goes down to the river. The two-storied N. front, of Flemish-bonded brickwork, has a plaster modillion cornice with egg-and-dart and leaf-and-tongue mouldings. On the ground floor the front doorway is placed to the W. of the centre line, with two sashed windows to the E. and one to the W.; the first floor has four openings. All windows have gauged brick lintels punctuated by keystones. The doorway has an eared architrave flanked by plain uprights which develop at the top into double console brackets with scale and foliate enrichment; these support a flat, lead-covered hood, panelled on the underside. The original range, only one room thick, is joined at the W. end to a S. wing of c. 1800 containing the stairs; these are lit by a tall round-headed W. window. The S. wing presumably takes the place of an earlier service wing. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 30 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 13 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205517 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 28 2022 2:49PM