Listed Building record MDO11290 - Coupar House, 69 The Plocks, Blandford Forum

Fine mid eighteenth century house standing behind forecourt. Thee house has a brick front, the centre bay being of bluish burnt brick, the sides red.

Coupar House, at the corner of Church Lane and the Plocks, probably dates from circa 1750 and is the largest and most splendidly decorated private house of the post-fire period in Blandford Forum; the only one to have Portland stone dressings on its brick facade. It consists of two ranges on different alignments: the east range probably being the earlier. <2-3>

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

(ST 88540639) Club

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 24 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 37 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF038945 (Index). SDO14738.

Coupar House and Stable Block, Church Lane, Blandford Forum

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205505 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2022 1:15PM