Listed Building record MDO39296 - Droop Farmhouse, Droop, Hazelbury Bryan

A house built in the 16th century with 18th century and later alterations. The building is of cruck construction and has walls of coursed rubble and a thatched roof. Surviving early features of the interior are reported to include a stone fireplace with carved beam above.

Droop Farmhouse dates to the late 17th or early 18th century. Two-storied, of coursed rubble with a thatched roof. (2)

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1981 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST75380810) Droop Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 108 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(4) DROOP FARM, 200 yds. S. of the church, is a two-storied house of coursed rubble with a thatched roof. The S.W. front has four bays with sashed windows set at wide intervals; an old gable-line on the end wall shows that it has been heightened. A stone casement window in the S.E. wall has hollow-chamfered jambs and a square head. The house was probably built in the late 17th or early 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888272 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 14 2022 1:35PM