Listed Building record MDO11268 - Lyston House, 32 East Street, Blandford Forum

(ST 88680635) LYSTON HOUSE, No. 32 East Street, is a five-bay two-storied house. Bastard's town plan shows that the site was spared by the fire of 1731 but the building has the character of the post-fire period and is likely to have been rebuilt, probably before 1750. The Flemish-bond brick facade has pilasters at each end and a slightly projecting centre bay containing the doorway. A plat-band traverses the lateral parts of the facade at first-floor level, stopping against the central feature but carried across the terminal pilasters; the facade is crowned by a cornice with fluted modillions and leaf-and-tongue ornament. Over this rises the tiled roof, with two hipped dormer windows. The nine sashed windows of the S. front are uniform, each with a flat lintel of gauged bricks in which the three middle bricks project to form a key, in this case not rendered. The pedimented door hood seems to be of the 19th century, perhaps replacing one more elaborate. <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, 29 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 23 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205515 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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