Listed Building record MDO23481 - Old Ford House, Poole Road, Blandford St Mary

Detached House, the east end is early eighteenth century and the west early nineteenth. It has rendered, colour-washed walls with a tiled roof to the earlier part and a hipped slate roof to the later part.

OLD FORD HOUSE 88470592, on the N. side of the Poole road and 70 yds. E. of the junction with the Dorchester road, comprises two parts; the E. part dates from early in the 18th century and the W. part was added about a century later. Externally all walls are rendered. The older and smaller E. range has two storeys with attics under a tiled roof; in the N. front the ground floor has two three-light casement windows with wooden mullions, the first floor has corresponding sashed windows and there is a modern dormer window in the roof. The chimneystack rises above two open fireplaces set back-to-back in the wall which divides the ground floor into two rooms. One fireplace is spanned by a cambered and chamfered bressummer. The 19th-century W. range has large sashed windows in a N. front of three bays. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 43 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205486 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2022 3:25PM