Listed Building record MDO11372 - 1 Market Place, Blandford Forum

Mid eighteenth century house built after 1731. The central panel is red brick, the sides of burnt grey brick with red dressings. Victorian shop-front with iron cresting.

(ST 88430627) No 1 The Market Place, has a modern shop in the ground floor but, above, it retains the two upper storeys of a small but distinguished mid 18th century town house. The N. and S. corners of the facade have French quoins of painted plaster; between these each storey has three sashed windows, the central windows being set in a slightly projecting bay which is further accentuated by finely coursed red brickwork in contrast to the blue headers of the lateral bays. The facade is crowned by a modillion cornice which breaks forward at the central bay and is capped by a pediment. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 33 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205524 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 28 2022 2:25PM