Listed Building record MDO23499 - Clerkenwell House, Lower Blandford St Mary, Blandford St Mary

Early eighteenth century house, with walls of banded brick and flint with some rubble and a tiled roof with slate margins and end brick stacks.

MANOR FARM, about 45 yds. N. of the church, is built of stone, brick and flint in two storeys, with dormer-windowed attics in a tiled roof. The main block, dating from the early 18th century, has a S.E. elevation of five bays with a central doorway flanked by sashed windows and five corresponding sashed windows on the first floor. This facade is of banded flint and brick, with a brick plat-band at first-floor level and a plaster eaves cove; much of the lower storey has been refaced with brickwork but some of the original banding survives at the E. end. Contiguous, to the W., is a slightly lower two-storied cottage of uncertain date but presumably later than the main block; it is of mixed brick and flint with brick quoins; further W. it is entirely of brick. The oak staircase in the main block has moulded close strings, turned balusters, moulded handrails and square newel posts. A Barn, 15 yds. W. of the church, is of banded brick and flint with some weather-boarding and with a tiled roof; it is probably of the late 18th century but it has been much altered and repaired. <2>

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Feb 25 2022 1:46PM