Listed Building record MDO11406 - West Lodge (formerly Phylvic Lodge), West Street, Blandford Forum

Cliff View West Street, was built soon after 1731 but has since been much altered. Originally the house was of two storeys, with a three-bay west front; a single-storied service wing projected to the east. At the end of the 18th century the Assembly Room (ST 80 NE 95) was built against the north west corner and a third storey was added to the west front; the other accretions at the rear subsequently caused the service wing to be included in an enlarged rectangular plan. A front porch and ground floor bay windows were added late in the 19th century. The west front, separated from West Street by a garden, is of Flemish-bonded brickwork with rusticated plaster quoin at the corners. The quoins to the north ceases at second-floor level, where the original eaves lay, but the south quoin was heightened to include the second storey, circa 1800. On the south front the original gable can be distinguished, by different bonding, from the spandrels which were added when the second storey was built. <2>

Phylvic Lodge, West Grade II. Formerly known as Cliff View. <3>

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

(ST 88380618) Phylvic Lodge

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 60 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> DOE (HHR), List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 7th September 1973 (Scheduling record). SDO17666.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF097337 (Index). SDO14738.

PHYLVIC LODGE, WEST STREET, BLANDFORD FORUM

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205528 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 24 2022 2:31PM