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Somerleyton Conservation BUNGAYSouthwoldArea Conservation ConservationArea Area Written by James Darwin and Dr. Written byWritten by Paul Bradley, and the Paul EdwardsPaul Edwards Waveney District Historic Historic Environ- Environ- Council Design & ment mentSpecialist Specialist and and Draft Draft CharacterCharacter Conservation Team the Waveneythe Waveney District District CharacterAppraisal Appraisal CouncilCouncil Design Design & & March 2011 Appraisal ConservationConservation Team Team Draft 1Draft December February 2007 2007 Fig 2, Nos. 7-9 The Green This copy has been produced specifically for Planning & Building Control purposes only. No further copies may be made. Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. License No. 100042052 Waveney District Council Fig 1, location plan . Fig 3, The School Contents Page 3 Introduction Page 3 Planning Policy Framework Page 3 Assessing Special Interest Page 3 Location and Context Page 5 General Character & Plan Form Page 7 Landscape Setting Fig 4. The Green c1904 Page 9 Historic Development & Archaeology Page 11 Spatial Analysis Page 12 Key Views Page 13 Architectural Qualities Page 15 Heritage Assets Page 18 Community Involvement Page 20 Statutory List Page 24 Local List Fig 5, Detail of Post Office 2 Introduction: Location & context Introduction stifle the area’s economic life or potential, though it is expected that a high degree of The historic environment is all around us in attention will be paid to design, repair and the form of buildings, landscapes, maintenance in such areas and, when archaeology and historic areas; it is a exercising planning powers, the Council precious and irreplaceable asset. Once gone will pay special attention to the it is gone forever. preservation and enhancement of the Conservation Area according to the policies Caring for the historic environment is a for the built environment set out in the dynamic process which involves managing Waveney District Council Core Strategy, change. This does not mean keeping adopted 2009, and Development everything from the past but it does mean Management Policies Development Plan making careful judgements about the value Document, adopted January 2011, which and significance of the buildings and replaces the adopted Local Plan of landscapes. Critical to these decisions is an November 1996. appreciation and understanding of an area’s In recognition of these policies and in line character including its social and economic with the requirements of the 1990 Planning background and the way such factors have (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) shaped its urban fabric. This should be the Act, Waveney District Council will starting point for making decisions about continue to formulate and publish proposals both its management and future. for the preservation and enhancement of the conservation area and consult the public on This conservation area appraisal: these proposals. • Describes the character of the area • Provides a sound basis for development control Assessing Special Interest • Identifies proposals for improving the area Location and Context The village of Somerleyton is located close Planning Policy Framework to the banks of the River Waveney, seven miles northwest of Lowestoft. The present conservation area includes parts of the Conservation Areas were introduced historic parishes of Somerleyton and through the Civic Amenities Act in 1967 Herringfleet. ( See fig 1, location map) and there are sixteen in Waveney District, Outlying parts of the historic settlement of two of which are now administered by the Somerleyton were incorporated within the Broads Authority. Conservation Areas are Broads Authority area of outstanding ‘areas of special architectural or historic natural beauty as a result of the Norfolk and interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or Suffolk Broads Act of 1988. enhance’. The Somerleyton Conservation The majority of the village lies within the Area was designated in 1977. G5: Somerleyton Settled Farmland landscape area. Pages 109-113 of the Designation as a Conservation Area is not Waveney Landscape Character Assessment intended to prevent new development, or 2008 set out the type of landscape this is, 3 E N A L Fig 6, Somerleyton 6, Fig Conservationco areaExisting – partof whichfalls registered landscape Hall’s the T E K R A M White House Farm 2 1 Pond Pond Manor House Farm Pond Holly 2 4 Pond 21 AD ST OLAVES RO in Dra Pond The Gardens 19 20 GP B 1074 Pond 1 Old House The Rectory 6 Pond Primary School School FS 2 The Green 1 P a 1 Allotment Gardens 4 ht Pump 16 18 within the conservationthe within area . 17 23 GP 1 nservation area showing listed structureslisted area nservation showing th and Garden House Tree P O 2 LI CE a MA 2 Forge House N'S LO 3 K Workshop E Tanks 1 Garage 3 3 a e T -L h T 1 e e h il e v C N a o S t oo ta J k g a e po ni c a O ck P Tra F L The Rosery O R B A TC L L O K Pond The Coach E Haven T h O e a R B k e L Somerleyton C tr U e Mill Farm o a N t t D a g E n e i S a T r O D N Pond ET Glebe House R Pond E O R T A S D Green E TH H a l Lea 1 Pond View Gardens ges es ta 7 g S ot tta D C Co T Pa d s r A th n w n a Po o rai T id i D n W I T O 1 h e Rose N C White R o O tt a A House g e Breydon D Pond Lethnot a n doh ss Ro 4 2 E 3 W S B LO a Crown C r v Conservation Area Boundary i TO e s — Pump E T b P Cottage n N e h a TO 1 y e n O R Somerleyton Common e M West View 1 1 0 7 Rose Cottages M That part of the Registered Landscape of 2 O L 5 1 R C 2 T TO O PE SomerleytonGII* Registered Hall within the Landscapeconservation of N 1 1 1 area Somerleyton Hall 15 GII Listed Buildings 8 T at GII Listed Buildings r a c k Track 4 General Character and Plan Form and policy recommendations for the Green’ the road forks, forming St Olaves protection of its character. Road and Market Lane the latter following the edge of Somerleyton Hall’s park. General Character & Plan Form To the north at the edge of the hall’s park are a group of picturesque estate cottages Although Somerleyton is a small rural which were built in the mid nineteenth village its buildings do not conform to the century for Sir Samuel Morton Peto of local vernacular tradition in their general Somerleyton Hall. The 1861 estate sales character. particulars refer to a picturesque green, on which in the form of a crescent are ‘twenty- Somerleyton is a dispersed low density eight cottage residences, of a most settlement now largely consisting of substantial and a highly ornamental substantial detached and semi-detached character-showing in the domestic dwellings located within generous gardens. arrangement and in the sleeping apartments, The present village centre is of linear form a singular and rare attention to the comfort and is primarily of nineteenth century date, and morality of peasant families.’ This the parish church and the village’s oldest number of houses is difficult to reconcile surviving dwellings now lying some way with the surviving houses today. The figure from its core and thus outside the of thirty five houses which appeared in the boundaries of the conservation area. The Illustrated London News (Jan 10 th 1857) is earliest surviving historic dwellings within similarly difficult to reconcile with the the village centre are primarily villas and extant properties unless lodge houses are farmhouses of later eighteenth or early included. Contemporary accounts including nineteenth century origin. The British Workman, and the journal of the social reformer and architect Henry Roberts All of the surviving buildings within the noted Peto’s philanthropic development conservation area are of either one or two storeys. Until the mid-twentieth century a with interest and approval. number of structures with a pronounced Between the conservation area and the river vertical emphasis stood within the village is a small area of slightly higher density confines. These included the Victorian development. This is comprised of a group chimneys of the brickworks, and two mid of terraced workers’ cottages, which were nineteenth century nonconformist chapels. built for employees of Lucas Brothers’ All have been demolished. Only the towers brickworks in the 1860s and a small of the hall and church now rise above the discreet 1980s housing development on trees, but these are scarcely visible from the Marsh Lane. Somerleyton Brickworks, a village. large former industrial site now reclaimed by nature, lies within this area and was The village is approached from the east once served by a short length of canal along the Blundeston Road, the route of which is now used for other purposes. The which was altered c1846 to allow for the village’s fine Victorian railway station is remodelling and expansion of the parkland also nearby. Peto was both a close associate surrounding Somerleyton Hall. Blundeston of the brick makers and builders, the Lucas Road now merges with ‘The Street’ near to Brothers, and a champion of improving the ‘The Green’ around which are a crescent of lot of workers in the construction estate cottages built for Sir Samuel Morton industries. It is perhaps therefore no Peto, then owner of the Hall.