Listed Building record MDO11295 - Lime Tree House, The Plocks, Blandford Forum

(ST 88510640) LIME TREE HOUSE faces Coupar House across Church Lane and is a small residence probably built soon after the fire of 1731.

The house is of two storeys with attics; a service wing extends W. and S. at the rear and there is a further S. extension which may formerly have been for stables. The E. front is of blue header bricks with red brick dressings and red brick chainage between the jambs of the ground and first-floor openings. The windows have gauged red brick flat arches with triple keystones; the tiled roof has two flat-topped dormers with sashed windows. At the eaves is a moulded cornice. The central entrance has an eared architrave and fluted Tuscan pilasters supporting two orders of scrolled foliate brackets; these support a segmental wooden hood. <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, 25 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 39 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205506 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2022 1:21PM