Listed Building record MDO39298 - Barn at Droop, Hazelbury Bryan

A barn built in the 16th century. The building has walls of coursed rubble and the roof is of cruck construction, though the crucks have been truncated and most of the roof timbers replaced, and thatch replaced by corrugated sheeting.

The barn, which was formerly thatched, is now roofed in galvanized metal sheeting. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 107 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(3) BARN, 50 yds. S. of the church, is of the 16th century with later repairs. The walls are of coursed rubble and the roof is thatched. The E. wall contains a doorway 10 ft. wide located 20 ft. from the N. end, and what is probably the jamb of a second doorway 30 ft. further S.; beyond this the building has been rebuilt. The W. wall has one jamb of an original doorway opposite to the first but the N. and S. extremities of the wall are secondary. A cross wall half-way between the two E. doorways divides the original barn into two parts. The roof is supported on a series of jointed cruck trusses spanning E.–W. and set 10 ft. apart; the N. half retains three nearly complete trusses and the remains of a fourth; the truncated S. half retains two. The vertical members of each truss start at ground-level and stand 9 ft. high; they curve inwards at the top and are notched into the principals and fastened with pegs and free tenons. The principals are tenoned and pegged at the apex and support three purlins on each side; collar beams occur at the level of the middle purlins. Treswell's map shows a building in this position.’

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 (Unpublished document).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

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Jan 24 2020 11:25AM