Description

1.
865 MARKET PLACE
(North Side)
Town Hall and
Corn Exchange
ST 8806 1/50 27.10.50.

I GV

2.
Portland stone ashlar front. Signed "Bastard, Architect" and dated 1734. Frieze.
2 storey 3 window front, enriched cornice and pediment. Draped stone vases to
pediment and quoin parapets. Clock in tympanum. The three lst floor windows
have moulded architraves, enriched pulvinated friezes, and pediments, the central
one being segmental. Moulded strings. The ground floor has 3 semi-circular
arches with moulded imposts and archivolts leading to open portico, formerly
a market. The front room on the Ist floor has some original fittings and also
portraits of the Bastards. Behind is a mid-Victorian Corn Exchange with interesting
elliptical roof-trusses. Gates to semi-circular arches in portico.

All the listed buildings in Market Place, and Nos 59 to 73 (odd) East Street,
Conyer's Filling Station, Nos 1 to 7 (odd), Nos 2 to 8 (even) and No 12 West
Street, and Church of St Peter and St Paul form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8849406328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Blandford Forum Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17531687

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)