Listed Building record MDO19239 - Corn Exchange and Town Hall, High East Street, Dorchester

(SY 69289076) The Town Hall, High East Street (still shown as Corn Exchange on OS 25" 1971) is a two-storeyed brick and stone dressed building designed by Banjamin Ferrey and built in 1847-48. The ground floor which was originally an open corn exchange, has an arcade of five arches to the south and two to the west, all of moulded stonework, with four-centred heads; the upper storey formerly served as an assembly hall and council
chamber and contains a large oriel window on the west. A clock-turret at the south-western corner is an addition of 1864, and according to Pevsner there is a "portal, with incongruous Romanesque foliage capitals" built in 1876. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1929 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 69289076) Corn Exchange (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 113-5 (Monograph). SDO148.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 182 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> DOE (HRR), 1975, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset 1975, 45 (Scheduling record). SWX1433.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453528 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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