(4 Market Street)
(Grade II listed in 1956 as "terrace 4-14 Market Street" and now listed individually)
(Grade II listed in 1956 as "terrace 4-14 Market Street" and now listed individually)
The business was once run by Mr WC Hodder (listed in the 1903 directory, and listed in 1939 as "butcher, retired") ~ the 1900s bill for his purchase is framed in the shop today. Mr Stockley of Portesham worked for Mr Hodder and eventually bought the business from him, taking in as partner a Mr Paye from Weymouth.
It later passed to the Roper family ~ Don Roper was apprenticed butcher in 1936, bought the business in 1961, and his son Colin took it over in 1973. When the shop was refurbished in 2000, an order book for 1910 turned up under the counter, but curiously seemed to deal as much in bread, flour and yeast as in meat.
The business was bought by Rob and Sara Wood in 2001 and renamed "The Village Butcher" ~ the new sign and the changed front door are the only obvious changes to the building. In 2006, the business passed to John and Patricia Barker, who changed its name to the Bride Valley Farm Shop after their farm where they breed longhorn cattle.