GREYHOUND HOUSE

GREYHOUND HOUSE, 2, MARKET PLACE, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 7EB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152922
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: GREYHOUND HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 2, MARKET PLACE, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 7EB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152922
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: GREYHOUND HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 2, MARKET PLACE, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 7EB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 2, MARKET PLACE, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 7EB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blandford Forum
National Grid Reference:: ST 88451 06270

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/06/2015

ST 8806 1/54

MARKET PLACE (South Side) No. 2 Greyhound House

(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by National Westminster Bank, MARKET PLACE)

27.10.50. GV I Originally the Greyhound Inn. After the fire, if not before, it belonged to the Bastard family and was rebuilt by them. It had been completed by 1753. It has a 3 storey 7 window front, now stucco. The central 3 bays have Corinthian pilasters and pediment. Enriched modillions to eaves cornice and pediment. All upper windows have enriched architraves and keystones. 2nd floor windows have shaped aprons with carved masks. At lst floor level there is a continuous penthouse with coved soffit. Plain sash windows without glazing bars to ground floor. An old print shows a carved greyhound in the tympanum. See the Bastards of Blandford by John Adams Archit. Review - June 1968.

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: ST8845106270

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'Architectural Review' in June, (1968)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.