Listed Building record MDO37261 - Cross Roads Farmhouse, Woodrow, Hazelbury Bryan

A farmhouse built in the sixteenth century with a nineteenth-century extension to the north. The building has walls of cob and a thatched roof with central brick chimney stack. Surviving internal features are reported to include an open fireplace and oven, and beams. In 1970 the single-storey extension to the north was reported to contain cider making equipment.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 108-109 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(26) FARMHOUSE (74250953), 1 m. N.W. of the parish church, is two-storied and has cob walls and a thatched roof (Plate 59). A house is shown here on Treswell's map of 1607 and it is probable that this is the actual building; Treswell makes a distinction between houses with central fireplaces and those with the fireplaces against the end walls, and the building corresponds with the map in this respect as well as in location; thus the house may be assigned with some probability to the end of the 16th century. To the N. is a single-storied extension, probably of the 19th century, containing appliances for cider making. Inside, the former open fireplace and oven have been blocked. The stairs are modern. The first floor rests on rough stop-chamfered beams.’

<2> Eyres, G J and Hobson, C, 2020, Dorset HER Hazelbury Bryan. Comments and Corrections. (Unpublished document). SDO16488.

'Shown on 1607 map. Mentioned in 'Old Houses' by Miss Cunnington … as an example of a very early Farm Settlement house away from the central village. NB. Also Lower Common Farm, Little Whitemoor Farm & Hawkin's House'

Record last edited

Jan 24 2020 12:03PM