The Old Lodge, Babworth Design and Access Statement and Heritage Impact Assessment
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The Old Lodge, Babworth Design and Access Statement and Heritage Impact Assessment March 2021 9248 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce FOREWORD Property Address: The Old Lodge Babworth, Retford, Nottinghamshire DN22 8EN Applicant Mr & Mrs Boyce Agent Carl Andrews BA DipArch RIBA AABC IHBC On behalf of Soul Architects Limited This Design and Access Statement and Heritage Impact Assessment has been prepared by Carl Andrews of Soul Architects Limited. The document has been prepared in support of the application for the demolition of the existing garage structure and the construction of a New Workshop and Car Barn. Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce CONTENTS 1 UNDERSTANDING OLD LODGE ........................................................................... 4 1.1 Site Location and Topography ................................................................................. 4 1.2 Site Analysis ............................................................................................................ 4 1.3 Historical Development............................................................................................ 5 1.4 Historic Maps .......................................................................................................... 6 1.5 Historic Park and Gardens ...................................................................................... 7 1.6 Assessment of Significance ..................................................................................... 9 2 THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................... 11 2.1 Interpretation of the Site ........................................................................................ 11 2.2 Proposed Development ......................................................................................... 13 2.3 Impact on the Surroundings .................................................................................. 13 3 HERITAGE IMPACT ............................................................................................. 13 Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce 1 UNDERSTANDING OLD LODGE 1.1 Site Location and Topography Old Lodge is located within the Babworth Estate and is located on the east boundary. The property is accessed from the south entrance on Babworth Road. The Babworth Estate is to the West of Retford within the Nottinghamshire district of Bassetlaw. Retford is approximately 8 miles east of Worksop and 35 miles north east of Nottingham. Extract from Google Earth The Babworth Estate is a registered Historic Park and Garden. The Old Lodge is a small octagonal building with a hipped slate roof. To the west there is a range of out buildings and a tall wall forming an enclosed courtyard. There are later flat roof additions to the rear of the lodge and out buildings. 1.2 Site Analysis The Old Lodge (grade II) is located on the east boundary of the Babworth Estate (grade II). The Historic Parks and Gardens cover an area of approximately 85 hectares and is in multiple ownerships. With the exception of the east boundary to the Retford Oaks Academy, the boundaries of Old Lodge are onto the estate. The site is accessed from the south entrance on Babworth Road through entrance gates and railings (grade II). The lodge adjacent the entrance is not listed. Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce Old Lodge (Grade II) Retford Oaks Academy Swiss Cottages Gates & (Grade II) Railings (Grade II) 1.3 Historical Development Listing descriptions: Old Lodge, Grade II Lodge, c1820. Stucco on a blue brick base. Slate roof with overhang at the eaves, single painted brick ridge stack and further single rendered stack to the rear. Single storey. Octagonal-plan. Doorway with C20 glazed door, flanked by single fixed lights each with arched Gothick glazing bars and lozenge shaped tracery under flat heads. To the rear are single storey extensions. Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce Gate Piers and Railings, Grade II Gate piers and railings, c1790 by Repton. Ashlar and wrought iron. Pair of rusticated ashlar gate piers on a moulded ashlar base with a narrow moulded ashlar band running near the top and shaped ashlar coping. Flanked by sloping wrought iron railings and single, similar, smaller piers. 1.4 Historic Maps 1898 Map showing the Babworth Estate and Old Lodge Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce 1918 Map showing Old Lodge and the Gates and Railings 1.5 Historic Park and Gardens Babworth Park, Grade II J Bridgeman Simpson inherited the C18 Hall and called in Humphry Repton (1752-1818) who produced a Red Book in 1790. Repton's proposals included a covered or winter walk, enlarging the lake and planting around it, putting in the eastern approach, and laying out the walled garden (Stroud 1962). The Hall remained in the Bridgeman Simpson family until the late C19 when it was purchased by Colonel Whitaker. The Hall became a convalescent hospital in the First World War. The Hall and its grounds remain (2000) in private ownership. LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Babworth Hall is situated 2km west of Retford and comprises c 85ha.The northern boundary gives onto arable land; the eastern edge of Dog Kennels Plantation abuts the Chesterfield Canal on the north-east boundary, continuing southwards and merging with other woodland to form the south-east boundary. The southern boundary runs westwards along Babworth Road to the south-west corner of the site. From there the western boundary runs northwards along Sutton Lane. The site is mainly flat but slopes to the south-east. The setting is rural to the north and west and urban to the east and south-east, with the East Coast railway line running in a north-westerly direction c 250m from the eastern boundary of the site. ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES There are two entrances to the park. From Sutton Lane the west drive runs past the brick-built West Lodge eastwards for 600m then turns south for 60m to meet the east drive at the east front of the stables, 90m north of Babworth Hall, from where it continues south to the west front of the Hall. From Babworth Road, the road to Retford, the east drive runs north-westwards for 500m from the gates, flanked by stone gate piers, by Babworth Hall Lodge which is of brick with a tiled roof. It then crosses a bridge to the north of the dried-up lake, before turning south-westwards for 400m to arrive at the west front of the Hall. An approach from the Retford Road was proposed by Repton but the existing drive was not laid out as planned (Pevsner and Williamson 1979). Carriages using the proposed approach would have been hidden by trees when nearing the Hall. A short drive from Old Lodge, 500m east of Babworth Hall on the eastern boundary of the site, joins the main west drive to the Hall. PRINCIPAL BUILDING Babworth Hall (listed grade II), which stands in the southern half of the park, is built of three storeys in red brick and ashlar. Dating from the mid C18, alterations were made in the late C18 by Humphry Repton as set out in his Red Book of 1790. He proposed that the Hall be colour-washed with a mixture of lime mixed with black and yellow. The Hall was described in 1790 (Throsby) as having been 'greatly enlarged by the present possessor' and the description continues 'it has a modern front of brick, with plain ornamental stone'. Repton's proposal to colour-wash the Hall had been carried out by 1813 as it was described in The Beauties of England and Wales as 'a plain, comfortable, white-fronted residence having had considerable additions made by the present possessor' (Stroud 1962). In 1850 William Burn (1789(1870) restored the red brick and carried out other alterations. Some 90m north-west of the Hall stand the stables, (early C19, listed grade II), built of ashlar, render, and red brick with slate roofs to a quadrangle plan. The stables stand south-east of the walled garden, the south-west wall of the stables being the south-east wall of the walled garden. Soul Architects Limited, 13 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 1AX ■ 01909 500710 ■ [email protected] ■www.soularchitects.co.uk 9248 – The Old Lodge, Babworth Client: Mr & Mrs Boyce GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS The gardens lie to the south of the Hall within the pleasure grounds which enclose the Hall, stables, and walled garden. Lawns lie to the west, south, and east of the Hall. To the south-east of the south lawn are gradually sloping cobbled steps, flanked by yews, which lead to the lower garden. At the base of the steps a path leads westwards with shrubs planted on the steep slope. Some 20m along the path a narrow, stepped stone path leads north-westwards to the upper garden. Further along the path to the south is a swimming pool together with