Listed Building record MDO11407 - Barnack Motor Company, West Street, Blandford Forum

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, now a garage, stand on the E. side of West Street, near the N. end of the causeway which leads to Blandford Bridge. The building is two-storied and has walls of Flemish-bonded red brickwork, and tile-covered hipped roofs. It is possible that the adjacent house to the N. was originally part of the same complex; the brickwork is similar and the facades are of equal height and until recently had similar brick cornices. The ground floor of the assembly-room building appears originally to have had open arcaded sides; on the first floor the remains of a spacious and lofty ballroom (56ft. by 29 ft.) are now used as a store. The building appears to date from the end of the 18th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1971 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 88380619) Garage

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 37 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205527 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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