Lidl & Donavon Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, , DA14 5HT Heritage Statement A105276

Lidl UK GmbH September 2017 Prepared on behalf of WYG Environment Planning Transport Limited.

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Project: Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street,

Client: Lidl UK GmbH

Job Number: A105276

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Contents

1.0 Introduction ...... 1

1.1 Aims and Objectives ...... 1

1.2 Scope ...... 1

2.0 Site and Development Descriptions ...... 2

2.1 Site Description ...... 2

2.2 Development Description ...... 3

3.0 Methodology ...... 3

3.1 Assessment Methodology ...... 3

3.2 Information Sources ...... 4

3.3 Pre-application Consultation ...... 4

4.0 Legislation and Policy Context ...... 5

4.1 Legislation ...... 5

4.1.1 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ...... 5

4.2 National Policy and Advice ...... 5

4.2.1 National Planning Policy Framework (2012) ...... 5

4.2.2 Planning Practice Guidance (2014) ...... 6

4.2.3 Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance (2008) ...... 7

4.2.4 Historic England Good Practice in Planning Note 3 (2015) ...... 8

4.3 Local Planning Policy ...... 8

4.3.1 Plan (2016) ...... 8

4.3.2 Local Plan ...... 9

4.3.3 Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (2008) ...... 10

5.0 Assessment of Significance ...... 11

5.1 Historical Background ...... 11

5.2 The Site ...... 12

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5.3 Designated Heritage Assets ...... 14

5.3.1 Foots Cray Conservation Area ...... 14

5.3.3 Listed Buildings ...... 17

5.4 Non-designated Heritage Assets ...... 25

5.4.1 Locally Listed Buildings ...... 25

6.0 Assessment of Impacts ...... 30

6.1 Demolition of Existing Buildings ...... 31

6.2 Proposed Foodstore and Townhouses with Parking and Landscaping ...... 32

6.2.1 Foots Cray Conservation Area ...... 32

6.2.2 Listed Buildings ...... 35

6.2.4 Locally Listed Buildings ...... 39

7.0 Mitigation and Conclusion ...... 42

8.0 Bibliography ...... 44

9.0 Appendices ...... 46

Appendix A: Heritage Assets Map ......

Appendix B: Methodology ......

Appendix C: Local Planning Policy ......

Appendix D: Historical Maps ......

Appendix E: List Entry Summaries ......

Appendix F: Report Conditions......

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1.0 Introduction

This Heritage Statement (HS) has been prepared by Rebecca Harfield, Associate Built Heritage Consultant, WYG. The HS has been undertaken on behalf of Lidl UK GmbH in support of a planning application for the demolition of the existing Lidl foodstore and the Donovan Bros building and the erection of a new Lidl store and five townhouses with associated parking and landscaping on a site at Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, Sidcup, DA14 5HT (the Proposed Development). The site is partially situated within the Foots Cray Conservation Area and there are several listed buildings and locally listed buildings located in close proximity to the site.

1.1 Aims and Objectives

The aim of this HS is to assess the significance of heritage assets and the likely impacts of the Proposed Development upon that significance, including any contribution made by their settings, as required by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The objectives of this HS are to:

• Set out the current legislative and national and local policy context;

• Identify and describe the significance of designated and non-designated heritage assets affected by the Proposed Development, including the contribution of their settings to their significance;

• Assess the impacts of the Proposed Development upon their significance; and

• Assess the proposed mitigation measures and make further recommendations where appropriate.

1.2 Scope

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) definition of heritage assets has been used in preparing this HS:

A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, because of its heritage interest. Heritage asset includes designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning authority (including local listing).

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Although this HS considers the historic background to the site and the site is located within an archaeologically sensitive area, it focuses primarily on heritage assets that are not of archaeological interest. It is not an Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment.

This HS does not provide the justification for the Proposed Development as required by section 132 of the NPPF unless this relates to heritage matters. It does not weigh any harm to or loss of significance of designated heritage assets against the public benefits of the Proposed Development as required by sections 133-134 of the NPPF, although heritage benefits are discussed where relevant. If necessary, these can be found in other planning application documents, in particular the Design and Access Statement and Planning Statement. This HS will, however, weigh up the scale of harm against the significance of non-designated heritage assets as required by section 135 of the NPPF.

2.0 Site and Development Descriptions

2.1 Site Description

The site is situated on the north-east side of Foots Cray High Street in the former village of Foots Cray, which is located approximately 1.5km south-east of Sidcup within the . At the front of site (southern part) is an existing, modern Lidl foodstore, built in the latter part of the 20th century. It is accessed primarily from Foots Cray High Street with parking at the rear, some in an undercroft. At the rear (northern part) of site is the Donovan Bros warehouse, which was also built in the latter part of the 20th century. This can be accessed from Foots Cray High Street but also from Rectory Lane. The site slopes down fairly steeply from the front to the rear with the Donovan Bros building set at a lower ground level than the Lidl store. Photographs of the site can be found in sections 5 and 6 of this HS.

There are no heritage assets located within the site; however, the front part of the site is located within the Foots Cray Conservation Area but not the rear (see map in Appendix A). There are a number of listed and locally listed buildings located in close proximity to the site. To the west of the site are two locally listed buildings on the south-east side of Rectory Lane and a group of listed buildings and one locally listed building on north-west side of Rectory Lane close to its junction with Foots Cray High Street/Sidcup Hill. To the south/south-west of the front part of the site are one listed building and one locally listed building, located on the south-west side of Foots Cray High Street diagonally opposite the High Street frontage of the site. There is one other listed building and one locally listed located to the south-east of the

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site along Foots Cray High Street close to the . Photographs of these heritage assets can be found in sections 5 and 6 of this HS.

A map showing the location of these heritage assets relative to the site and brief descriptions can be found in Appendix A.

2.2 Development Description

The Proposed Development consists of the demolition of the existing Lidl foodstore and the Donovan Bros warehouse. It is proposed to erect a new, single-storey Lidl foodstore at the rear of the site and five, two-and-a-half storey townhouses at the front of the site fronting onto Foots Cray High Street with private gardens at the rear. Vehicular, servicing and pedestrian access would be off Foots Cray High Street, although occupants and visitors to the residential units can also access them by foot from Foots Cray High Street. Parking and servicing space for the replacement Lidl foodstore is provided within the site with dedicated parking bays for the townhouses at the bottom of their back gardens. The proposed soft landscaping focuses on largely on the perimeter of the site.

Further details of the Proposed Development can be found in the application drawings and the Design and Access Statement.

3.0 Methodology

3.1 Assessment Methodology

This HS follows the requirements of the NPPF and has also had regard to:

• Planning Practice Guidance on Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment (2014);

• Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment (Historic England 2008); and

• Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets (Historic England 2015b).

In addition, WYG has developed its own heritage evaluation and assessment method, details of which can be found in Appendix B. Professional judgment is used in conjunction with this

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guidance and methodology in order to undertake the significance and impacts assessments in this HS.

3.2 Information Sources

This HS has been prepared taking into consideration the historical background of the Proposed Development site and wider area. Sources consulted included:

• National Heritage List for England for designated heritage assets excluding conservation areas;

• London Borough of Bexley for conservation areas and locally listed buildings;

• Heritage Gateway;

• Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, especially for historic photographs;

• Historical maps online from the National Library of Scotland and Old-Maps websites; and

• Secondary research as appropriate.

In addition to the above, a site visit was undertaken on 25 August 2017 by Fiona Williams, Senior Built Heritage Consultant, WYG. The site visit was used to assist in identifying heritage assets with settings affected by the Proposed Development and in assessing the impacts of the Proposed Development on their settings and hence their significance.

3.3 Pre-application Consultation

Pre-application consultation was undertaken by Lidl UK GmbH with the London Borough of Bexley in 2015 with a scheme different to that currently proposed. The response draws attention to the front of site being located within the Foots Cray Conservation and opposite a listed building (Tudor Cottages) with the rear of the site being adjacent to a locally listed building (Hope Community School). It notes that the existing Lidl store is described in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) as ‘large scale modern building’ but with ‘interesting features’ and materials that match other structures and help it ‘assimilate’ into its ‘village core setting’. Concern is expressed that the earlier proposal would leave a gap in the active frontage of the site, which would not preserve or enhance its character or appearance. These matters are addressed in section 6 of this HS.

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4.0 Legislation and Policy Context

4.1 Legislation

4.1.1 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

The Act outlines the provisions for designation, control of works and enforcement measures relating to Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas. Of relevance to the Proposed Development are:

• section 66(1) of the Act states that the planning authority must have special regard to the desirability of preserving any Listed Building, and its setting, that may be affected by the grant of planning permission; and

• section 72(1) of the Act states that special attention should be paid to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of Conservation Areas when exercising planning functions. The ‘special attention does not include the settings of Conservation Areas.

4.2 National Policy and Advice

4.2.1 National Planning Policy Framework (2012)

The NPPF sets out the Government’s national planning policies, including the conservation of the historic environment. Conserving heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance, so that they can be enjoyed for their contribution to the quality of life of this and future generations, is one of 12 core planning principles underpinning plan-making and decision-taking.

The NPPF covers all aspects of the historic environment and heritage assets, including designated assets (World Heritage Sites, Scheduled Monuments, Listed Buildings, Protected Wreck Sites, Conservation Areas, Registered Parks and Gardens and Registered Battlefields) and non-designated assets (local lists and archaeological sites of equivalent significance to scheduled monuments). The NPPF draws attention to the irreplaceable nature of heritage assets and the benefits their conservation can bring to the wider objectives of the NPPF in relation to sustainability, economic benefits and place-making (para 126).

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The NPPF requires LPAs to identify and assess the significance of heritage assets affected by proposals (including their settings) and to take available evidence and expertise into account when considering the impact of proposals on heritage assets (para 128).

The NPPF sets out the approach local authorities should adopt in assessing development proposals within the context of applications for development of both designated and non- designated assets. Great weight should be given to the conservation of designated heritage assets and the more important the asset, the more the emphasis should be placed on its conservation. Harm or loss to significance can occur through alteration or destruction or development within its setting. Any harm or loss to heritage assets should require clear and convincing justification (para 132).

Where there is substantial harm to or total loss of significance of a designated heritage asset, it must be demonstrated that this is necessary to achieve substantial public benefits that outweigh the harm or loss in order for local planning authorities to grant consent. Alternatively, it must be demonstrated that all of a set number of criteria are met (para 133).

Where there is less than substantial harm, the harm should be weighed against the public benefits of the development (para 134).

Balanced judgements should be made when weighing applications that affect non- designated heritage assets, taking into account the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset (para 135).

Additional guidance is given on new development within Conservation Areas and within the settings of heritage assets. Proposals that preserve elements of the setting that make a positive contribution to or better reveal that significance of the heritage asset should be treated favourably (para 137).

Where loss of significance as a result of development is considered justified, the NPPF requires heritage assets to be recorded and understanding of the heritage assets to be advanced before they are partly or wholly lost in a manner proportionate to their importance and impact. The results of these investigations and the archive should be made publicly accessible. The ability to record evidence should not however be a factor in deciding whether loss should be permitted (para 141).

4.2.2 Planning Practice Guidance (2014)

The NPPF is supported by Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) on Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment (2014). This provides further information on how to interpret and

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apply the NPPF in practice and the relationship to the legislative framework for planning and the historic environment. Of particular relevance to the Proposed Development is the following guidance:

• An unlisted building that makes a positive contribution to a conservation area is of individually lesser importance than a listed building.

• Justification for the demolition of a building that is important or integral to the character or appearance of a conservation will be still be proportional to the relative significance of the building and its contribution to the significance of the conservation area as a whole.

• Heritage assets may be affected by direct physical change or by change in their setting. Being able to properly assess the nature, extent and importance of the significance of a heritage asset, and the contribution of its setting, is very important to understanding the potential impact and acceptability of development proposals.

• Setting is the surroundings in which an asset is experienced, and may therefore, be more extensive than its curtilage. All heritage assets have a setting, irrespective of the form in which they survive and whether they are designated or not.

• A thorough assessment on the impact on setting needs to take into account, and be proportionate to, the significance of the heritage asset under consideration and the degree to which proposed changes enhance or detract from that significance and the ability to appreciate it.

• Views of and from an asset will play an important part in the way in which we experience an asset; its setting is also influenced by other environmental factors such as noise, dust and vibration from other land uses in the vicinity, and by our understanding of the historic relationship between places.

• Harm to a heritage asset’s significance may arise from works to the asset or from development within its setting.

4.2.3 Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance (2008)

This document outlines Historic England’s approach to decision-making and provides guidance on all aspects of the historic environment. It has yet to be updated by Historic England but is still recognised and used. It sets out conservation principles that provide an assessment method for understanding and assessing heritage significance using four groups of heritage values and then explains how to apply the principles in making decisions about change to

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significant places in their settings. Specific policies and guidance then follow on common changes to heritage assets.

4.2.4 Historic England Good Practice in Planning Note 3 (2015)

Historic England’s Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets (2015) provides more detailed advice on how to approach setting assessments and expands upon the NPPF and the associated PPG. A five step process is proposed for proportionate setting assessments, of which the first four steps have been taken into account in preparing this HS. These are:

• Step 1: identify which heritage assets and their settings are affected;

• Step 2: assess whether, how and to what degree these settings make a contribution to the significance of the heritage asset(s);

• Step 3: assess the effects of the Proposed Development, whether beneficial or harmful, on that significance; and

• Step 4: explore the way to maximise enhancement and avoid or minimise harm.

The following advice is also of particular relevance to the Proposed Development:

• The setting of a heritage asset may reflect the character of the wider townscape or landscape in which it is situated, or be quite distinct from it, whether fortuitously or by design.

• The settings of heritage assets change over time. Understanding the history of change will help to determine how further development within the asset’s setting is likely to affect the contribution made by setting to the significance of the heritage asset.

4.3 Local Planning Policy

4.3.1 London Plan (2016)

The London Plan provides the overall strategic plan for London setting out an integrated economic, environmental, transport and social framework for the development of London over the next 20-25 years.

Policy 7.8 Heritage Assets and Archaeology provides strategic policy (A and B), planning decisions policy (C, D and E) and LDP preparation policy (F and G). Of these, C and D are of relevance to the Proposed Development. These require development to identify,

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value and conserve heritage assets where appropriate and development affecting heritage assets and their settings to conserve their significance by being sympathetic in their design. A full copy of this policy can be found in Appendix C.

4.3.2 Local Plan

4.3.2.1 Bexley Core Strategy (2012)

The Core Strategy sets out the London Borough of Bexley’s long-term vision for development in the borough. It was adopted in 2012 just prior to the NPPF coming into force.

Policy CS19 Heritage and archaeology is relevant to the Proposed Development. It seeks to make the most of these assets to enhance the local sense of place through a variety of actions. Of particular relevance are c and d, which aim to conserve and enhance the significance of heritage assets and their settings, including listed buildings, locally listed buildings and conservation areas, and to protect them from development that is likely to adversely impact on their significance or setting.

A full copy of this policy can be found in Appendix C.

4.3.2.2 Saved Policies from the London Borough of Bexley 2004 Unitary Development Plan (2012 Addendum)

The 2012 Addendum to the London Borough of Bexley’s 2004 Unitary Development provides an updated list of all saved policies that have not been superseded by Bexley’s Core Strategy (2012) and the London Plan (then 2011). These saved policies continue to form part of Bexley’s Local Plan.

The following three saved policies are of relevance to the Proposed Development:

• Policy ENV46: this concerns new development within conservation areas and requires it to preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the area; • Policy ENV 47: this concerns demolition in conservation areas and states that the demolition of buildings that contribute to the character or appearance of the area will generally be opposed; and • Policy ENV51: this states that proposals that detract from the setting of a listed building will be resisted.

A full copy of these policies can be found in Appendix C.

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4.3.3 Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (2008)

The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan was adopted by the London Borough of Bexley in 2008. It defines the special architectural and historic interest of the Foots Cray Conservation Area and identifies opportunities for enhancement.

Of relevance to the Proposed Development, this Appraisal and Management Plan comments at paragraph 7.17 on the application site as follows:

Lidl’s supermarket is a larger scale modern building, but its design with interesting features such as arched canopies, and its use of brickwork, matching the older structures, helps to assimilate it into the historic village core setting (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 8).

The Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) identifies the listed buildings, locally listed buildings and landmark buildings within the Conservation Area. It also identifies significant trees and open spaces, as well as significant views. The canopies of some significant trees extend over the application site, mostly along the north-west boundary. There is also one significant view potentially affected by the Proposed Development, which extends from outside No. 3 Foots Cray High Street south-east along this road. It is also noted that there are a number of listed buildings, locally listed buildings and landmark buildings near to the site with the closest being as follows:

• Hope Community School (formerly Harenc School) to the west of the site in Rectory Lane (locally listed and landmark building); • War Memorial also to the west of the site in Rectory Lane (locally listed building); • The former Red Lion Public House to the south-west of the site on Foots Cray High Street (locally listed and landmark building); • Tudor Cottages to the south of the site on Foots Cray High Street (NHLE: 1188354, grade II listed building); and • The Seven Stars Public House to the south-east of the site on Foots Cray High Street (NHLE: 1359410, grade II listed building and landmark building).

Where these heritage assets have settings and significance affected by the Proposed Development, they are considered in sections 5 and 6 below.

The Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 10) states a paragraph 7.28 that there are many ‘buildings of townscape merit’ identified on the Townscape Analysis Map (ibid. 14) but there are none depicted. However, it is possible that

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Cray Buildings at nos. 2-8 Foots Cray High Street were intended to be identified as buildings of townscape merit given their description as an ‘simple but attractive terrace group’; however, they have not been.

The Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 12-13) goes on to identify opportunities for enhancement and potential for new development at paragraphs 7.37-7.43. The latter notes that there are locations where sensitive new development could be accommodated where it replaces poor or mediocre modern design and some potential for limited new development of modern and less sensitive buildings within the Conservation Area. However, these locations are not identified in the Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008).

5.0 Assessment of Significance

5.1 Historical Background

The Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 4) provides an overview of the historical development of Foots Cray, which is summarised below. It states that Foots Cray originated as a Saxon settlement with its name stemming from a local Anglo- Saxon landowner called Godwin Fot, who had a farmstead near the River Cray. The Domesday Book records this as a small village with a farm and water mill and eight inhabitants.

Given its location along the main London to road, at a junction a Cray Valley to route, and the presence of a ford with a packhorse bridge across the River Cray, the village began to grow. Later the nearby country estates of Pike Place, later known as Foots Cray play also played a role in its development. From the 15th century onwards, roads were established from Foots Cray out to nearby settlements and during the 18th century, roads from Wrotham and Lee to Foots Cray were turnpiked. Stage coaches passed through Foots Cray on their way between London and Maidstone and stopped at The Seven Stars in Foots Cray High Street or The Tiger’s Head, which was situated in Rectory Lane (formerly Church Lane). This coaching inn burnt down in 1792 and was rebuilt but closed in 1875, when it became a temperance hotel (The Lost Pubs Project n.d.).

This led to the general pattern of development within the village with buildings evolving to become more commercial in character extending along Foots Cray High Street and residential properties along Rectory Lane. The oldest buildings found in these locations and they form the historic core of the village.

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The River Cray has played an important role in Foots Cray’s evolution. A series of water mills were built along its length over the years. The last water mill at Foots Cray was constructed in 1767 to the north of The Seven Stars and used for papermaking. It was a major source of local employment but was demolished in 1929; however part of the mill pond still survives.

As residential suburbs grew and motor vehicles became increasingly common, a bypass was built to the south of Foots Cray removing through traffic from the village. Industrial development followed and encroached on Foots Cray. However, it still retained its much of its village character within its now suburban setting.

5.2 The Site

Historical maps and photographs indicate that the majority of the application site was very much backland within Foots Cray for much of its history and in use as gardens and later a nursery later becoming used for other commercial/industrial purposes with associated buildings from the mid-20th century onwards. However, the small, southern part of the site had buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street that may have housed a mix of residential and commercial and possibly industrial uses within the historic core of the village.

The earliest map viewed is the 6-inch Ordnance Survey (OS) map of 1870. At the front, southern part of the site, there is a narrow building addressing Foots Cray High Street, which in later maps is identified as a smithy and as by 1960 as Forge House. To its immediate north-west is an access lane leading into a small courtyard providing access to the rear of buildings. To the north-west of the access lane is a large building or terrace fronting directly onto Foots Cray High Street. Undated historic photographs in the Bexley Local Studies and Archives Centre indicate these buildings were two-and-a-half storeys in height, one with a large gabled roof appearing almost three-storeys in height, and almost with various commercial uses on their ground floors. Historic maps show these buildings were heavily extended at their rears and have rear gardens, one with a small orchard. The majority of the site in the northern portion is shown as gardens with some trees and a small outbuilding. These gardens may be associated with the National School (later known as the Harenc School and now as Hope Community School).

By the mid to late 1890s, the 25-inch and 6-inch OS maps the same arrangement at the front, southern part of the site but with an access lane off Foots Cray High Street along the north-west side of what appears to be Cray Buildings (nos. 2-8 Foots Cray High Street), which by 1898 have been constructed. The lane appears to lead what is now the rear, northern part of the site, which now contains three glass buildings arranged in a U-shape

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along the site’s north-western boundary. These are presumed to be greenhouses as later maps from the 1930s label this part of the site as a nursery.

The 25-inch and 6-inch OS maps of the early 20th century (1909-1910) shows a similar arrangement but with more small buildings or outbuildings present in the front portion of the site set behind the buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street and a new larger, glass building located in the north-east corner of the site. These buildings and their land are more clearly shown as being separate from the School and appear to be associated with a building located outside of the site on what is now the car park and garages for the modern block of flats (Ivor House) on Rectory Lane. This building is identified on later, mid-20th century maps as a ‘works’.

1930s -1940s 25-inch OS and 6-inch maps and a 1940 aerial photograph show the same general layout but with some changes to the number and positioning of the glasshouses. This rear, northern part of the site is labelled ‘nursery’ on these maps. A 1945 aerial photograph is very blurry but appears to show all of the glass buildings removed from the rear part of the site and no change to the front of the site.

Historical maps from the mid-20th century (1960s-1970s) show a greater degree of change to the application site and its immediate surroundings. None of the buildings shown on historical maps and photographs within the site have survived. In the front part of the site, the same basic pattern prevails in the 1960s but some buildings have been amalgamated and there are fewer smaller buildings or outbuildings at the rear of the buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street. A large building (garage) is present in the approximate position of Lidl’s existing car park and all the buildings have been removed from the rear part of the site.

By the 1970s, the row of buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street from Forge House down to the junction with Rectory Lane have been replaced with nos. 1-13 (odd) Foots Cray High Street, including a large building that was partially located within the application site that has either been reduced in sized or replaced. This enabled a new access lane to be formed off Foots Cray High Street, which is the road that currently leads to the existing Lidl car park and to the Donovan Bros Ltd. warehouse. During the 1970s, the rear of the site became industrial in character with the arrival of a large building labelled as Engineering Dept, Depot and Works. This is believed to be the existing Donovan Bros warehouse, which is understood to have been built for and used by Harcourt Brace and Company Ltd (publishers). Ivor House in Rectory Lane and was also constructed at this time. Historical

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maps, aerial photographs and planning histories indicate that the Lidl building was also constructed in the late 20th century in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

A selection of historical maps can be seen in Appendix D.

5.3 Designated Heritage Assets

5.3.1 Foots Cray Conservation Area

Foots Cray Conservation Area is relatively small and centred on the historic core of the village. It focuses on properties on either side of Foots Cray High Street, the main road through the village, Rectory Lane, part of Sidcup Hill and part of the River Cray. The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 2) provides a summary of special character and appearance of this Conservation Area drawing attention to the following features that justify its designation:

• Village residential and commercial character in close juxtaposition; • Visual prominence and landmark quality of Hope Community School (formerly the National School and Harenc School) with its bell tower; • Varied architectural and historic interest of the area’s buildings, particularly the collection of Georgian houses (e.g. the grade II listed nos. 180-188 Rectory Lane); • Valley location – historic association with stream/river aspects, with village developed at a crossing point; • The area’s historic crossroads and street pattern; and • The strong presence of trees, particularly those on Rectory Lane and adjacent to the River Cray.

Taking into account the evolution of Foots Cray and the nature and number of the individually designated heritage assets located within it, the Foots Cray Conservation is considered to be of local-regional importance. As such, it is a designated heritage asset that is considered to be of medium heritage significance for its special architectural and historic interest (aesthetic and historical values).

The southern part of the application site comprising the existing Lidl foodstore is located within the Conservation Area and is situated approximately centrally along the main, commercial road through the village. The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 8) considers the contribution of the existing Lidl building to the character and appearance of the Conservation Area. It notes at paragraph 7.17 that Lidl’s supermarket is a larger scale, modern building but that its design

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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with interesting features such as arched canopies and use of brickwork, helps to assimilate it into the historic village core setting. There is also one significant view involving the front part of the site, which extends from outside No. 3 Foots Cray High Street south-east along this road taking in the existing Lidl foodstore. Given that this foodstore replaced historic buildings, most with shopfronts on the ground floors, the building lacks an active frontage appropriate to its location fronting onto Foots Cray High Street. This is due to blocked windows and design of the grey canopy over the main entrance, which interrupts the row of arched features, resulting in a building that makes a slight negative contribution to the significance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

Figure 1: Existing Lidl Foodstore on front, southern part of the application site viewed from Foots Cray High Street.

The rear, northern part of the site is not located within the Conservation Area but is located within its setting. Historically, this land was part of open backland, including gardens, orchards and rear yards, that extended along both sides of Rectory Lane (then Church Lane) as part of the transition from the village of Foots Cray to the grade II* listed Parish Church if All Saints (NHLE: 1064202) and then to the rural countryside beyond, which includes the grade II Registered Park and Garden called (NHLE: 1000288). Over time, this part of the site became developed and hence urbanised in character forming part of Foots Cray village.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 3) explains why some land, including most of the application site, was excluded from the boundary of the Foots Cray Conservation Area at paragraph 4.6. This states that for some large sites, notably those on the northern side of the High Street and Hollytree Parade, the service yards at the rear of buildings fronting onto street have not been included in the designation because they are unrelated to the character of the streetscene. The existing Donovan Bros warehouse on this part of the site is large but it is not widely visible within the Conservation Area. There are glimpsed and partial views of the building along the access roads off Foots Cray High Street and the two off Rectory Lane. However, the building is largely concealed from view due to the lower ground level and screening by existing buildings and trees.

Overall, the rear part of the application site considered to make a neutral contribution to the significance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area (aesthetic and historical values/special architectural and historic interest).

Figure 2: Rear, northern part of the application site – Donovan Bros Ltd. warehouse.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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5.3.3 Listed Buildings

As can be seen from the map in Appendix A, there are a number of listed buildings in close proximity to the site. The site visit established that only three of these have settings and hence significance potentially affected by the Proposed Development. These are discussed below. The remainder have been scoped out of further consideration in this HS primarily due to a lack of intervisibility.

5.3.3.1 Tudor Cottages

Tudor Cottages are located to the south of the application site on the south side of Foots Cray High Street. They are designated as a grade II listed building (NHLE: 1188354). The following is taken largely from the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008 and the relevant List Entry Summary. The building dates from the late 15th or early 16th century and is one of the oldest in Foots Cray. It is of historic interest. Tudor Cottages is an example of a Wealden house. It is two-storeys in height and constructed of timber framing with a hipped, tiled roof with small gablets and two large brick chimney stacks at either end. It originally would have had an open, central hall flanked by two-storeyed, jettied wings but has been heavily modified internally and extended. The building was modernised and divided into four cottages with first floors added throughout. Tudor Cottages was heavily restored in the 1970s for use as offices (Ideal Homes n.d) and photographs in the Bexley Local Studies and Archives Centre show the extent of the works. However, the original roof form, chimneys and elevations are still discernible and it is of some architectural interest. The building is understood to now be in residential use as a pair of semi-detached houses.

Although not identified as a landmark building in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008), it is of visual prominence in the streetscene due to its positioning on Foots Cray High Street, the main road through the village, and due to its contrasting form, construction method and materials. One significant view within the Conservation Area south-east along Foots Cray High Street takes in this listed building.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Figure 3: Tudor Cottages from Foots Cray High Street.

Tudor Cottages is considered to be of medium heritage significance, primarily for its historic and surviving architectural interest, as well as for its landmark qualities (historical and aesthetic values). It also makes a positive contribution to the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

Tudor Cottages’ front setting is formed by Foots Cray High Street and the buildings fronting onto this road on both sides. Positive aspects of this front setting are the building’s relationship to the road, which enable views of its principal elevation, and to surviving historic buildings nearby, in particular to the locally listed former Red Lion Public House located to the north-west of Tudor Cottages separated by the modern Prospect House. The surviving historic buildings provide an historic context for Tudor Cottages’, which helps understanding of the building’s role and location within the historic core of Foots Cray village. The front setting of Tudor Cottages is, however, considered to make a relatively low, positive contribution to its overall heritage significance, which predominantly lies more in own history, surviving form, fabric and features, and its landmark qualities. Its rear setting has been largely lost due to the construction of modern residential development.

The application site lies on the opposite side of Foots Cray High Street to Tudor Cottages and from its frontage, the existing Lidl foodstore is visible as well as part of the Donovan Bros warehouse along the access road. Although historically Tudor Cottages would have looked out towards buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street, the existing buildings are

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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modern buildings and do not provide an historic context for this listed building. As such, the application site is considered to make a negligible, negative contribution to setting and hence to the significance of Tudor Cottages (historical and aesthetic values).

5.3.3.2 The Seven Stars Public House

The Seven Stars Public House is located to the south-east of the application site and is located on the north side of Foots Cray High Street. The following is taken largely from the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008 and the relevant List Entry Summary. The rear of this pub is in close proximity to the south-east former of the application site. The Seven Stars Public House is designated as a grade II listed building (NHLE: 1359410). It was probably built in the 16th century or earlier and like Tudor Cottages, is one of the oldest buildings in Foots Cray. It is noted that stage coaches used to call here in the past on the way between London and Maidstone. It is of historic interest.

The pub is two-storeys in height. The original range is timber-framed but largely covered in weatherboards with some of ground floor finished in render. The original range is set at right-angles to Foots Cray High Street with a prominent gable end rising up from the pavement. This projects further forward than all other buildings along the north side of Foots Cray High Street, illustrating how much narrower this road used to be. A number of large sash windows survive with one small sash in the gable end. There are two doors in the north-west flank wall. The roof is gabled and tiled with two brick chimney stacks.

The Seven Stars has been heavily extended at the side and rear in various phases. The main entrance into the pub is now via a flat-roofed, angled porch located between the oldest part of the building and a large, two-storey extension running parallel with Foots Cray High Street. This addition is of brick at ground floor level and roughcast above and has casement windows and was mostly built in the 20th century. It replaced an access lane leading to courtyard and historic outbuildings. However, the oldest part of the public house is of architectural interest. Due its height, form and positioning in relation to Foots Cray High Street, the River Cray and the locally listed Foots Cray Bridge, it is landmark building at the eastern entrance to the historic core of the village. Indeed the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) identifies The Seven Stars as landmark building within the Conservation Area and it is the focal point of one significant view in an easterly direction along Foots Cray High Street.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Given that The Seven Stars has been a public house for many centuries, it is likely to be of communal value for local residents as a gathering place for socialising and as landmark historic building within the village.

The Seven Stars Public House is considered to be a of medium heritage significance, primarily for its historic and architectural interest, its landmark qualities (historical and aesthetic values) and its communal value. It also makes a positive contribution to the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

A key positive feature of The Seven Stars’ setting is its relationship to Foots Cray High Street at its frontage, which is the main road through the village and its commercial heart. Its visual prominence and landmark status in the streetscene also help understand its function as a public house, which needs to attract customers. Views of the principal elevation of The Seven Stars in Foots Cray High Street are against a backdrop of mature trees located along the bank of the River Cray and between the rear of The Seven Stars and the surviving part of the mill pond. The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) identifies these as significant trees.

Figure 4: The Seven Stars Public House from Foots Cray High Street.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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The Seven Stars’ relationship to the River Cray and the locally listed bridge is another important aspect of its setting. As well as providing an attractive riverside and green setting, it also helps to provide understanding of The Seven Stars’ historic role as a coaching inn and its location beside a ford and later a bridge at the eastern entrance to the village. Views of The Seven Stars in combination with other nearby historic buildings and structures, especially views north-west along Foots Cray High Street with the flank wall of Tudor Cottages in the background, also provide an historic village context for this listed building.

Overall, The Seven Stars’ setting is considered to make a medium positive contribution to its heritage significance (aesthetic and historical values/special architectural and historic interest). However, this listed building’s significance lies primarily in the building’s historic and architectural interest, its landmark qualities (historical and aesthetic values) within its front setting, its proximity to Foots Cray High Street and the River Cray, and its communal value.

The rear setting of The Seven Stars, which includes part of the application site, is considered to make a relatively low contribution to this listed building’s significance. There are aspects of the pub’s rear setting that make a positive contribution to its significance, which are an enclosed rear yard beyond which are the significant trees along the River Cray and the surviving area of mill pond. These provide a functional and attractive space, and historic context, as well as helping screen the large and modern Cray House from view. However, the rear setting of The Seven Stars also includes the access road leading along the western wall of the pub, an extensive area car parking and the ‘service’ rears of several buildings. This includes part of the rear of the existing Lidl foodstore, its raised, undercroft and surface parking, and part of Donovan Bros warehouse. These views are not aesthetically pleasing and historically, would have been a relatively green and open view until the early 20th century. However, these negative features of The Seven Stars’ rear setting do not interfere with views of the rear elevation of the public house, which enable its form and chronological development to be appreciated. The application site is, therefore, considered to make a negligible, negative contribution to setting and hence to the significance of The Seven Stars Public House (historical and aesthetic values).

5.3.3.3 Belgrave Place, Nos. 180-188 (Even) Rectory Lane

Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane is located to the west of the application site on the western side of Rectory Lane. It is designated as a grade II listed building (NHLE: 1188531). The following is taken largely from the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008 and the relevant List Entry

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Summary. This row of five terraced houses is believed to have been constructed around 1737 and is a good example of a small row of relatively early, fairly modest, Georgian townhouses. The houses are three-storeys in height and are built of red brick (Flemish bond) with a colour-wash, though this has been removed from the house closest to the junction between Rectory Lane, Sidcup Hill and Foots Cray High Street. The roofs are steeply pitched, gabled roofs and tiled with catslides at the rear. There is one, centralised small dormer window with a hipped roof per house facing Rectory Lane. There are three red brick chimney stacks placed on the party walls between the houses and additional stacks at the rear of each house.

The principal elevations of houses in the row are not identical but the composition of the row is broadly symmetrical. The houses come under one designation and hence are of group value. The houses are either end of the row would have had timber, six-panelled, front doors on the outer side of their frontages set within an architrave, a sash window adjacent and two sash windows on the first and second floors all with gauged brick arches. All the sash window are flush-fitted. The next houses in have the front doors placed on their inner sides both with simple canopies over and each has a large window on the ground floor divided by glazing bars, one with a detailed surround with a cornice supported by console brackets and a sill below. The central house has front door with a larger, grander canopy and a bow window on the ground floor. These variations in ground floor window designs is understood to be due to their historical use as shops. The sash windows on the upper floors match the others in the row. Running across the front elevation of the row are brick stringcourses between the ground and first floors and first and second floors and a timber, moulded eaves cornice.

There is some visibility of the rears of the terraced houses due to their location close to the junction between Rectory Lane, Sidcup Hill and Foots Cray High Street. The rear elevations are of two-storeys in height and finished in weatherboards. There are also, single-storey rear additions with gabled, tiled roofs.

Due to their location at a crossroads, scale and visibility, this set of houses is identified in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) as a landmark building and their principal elevations are the focal point of one significant view from the corner of Rectory Lane and Foots Cray High Street. They also feature in the periphery of two other significant views, one from the small public open space looking south-east across the junction of Sidcup Hill, Rectory Lane and Foots Cray High Street and the other looking north-east along Rectory Lane.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Figure 5: Nos. 180-188 Rectory Lane from junction of Foots Cray High Street and Rectory Lane.

Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane, is considered to be of medium heritage significance for its special architectural and historic interest (aesthetic and historical values). The group of houses also make a positive contribution to the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

The setting of these houses is formed by their enclosed, individual gardens at the rear, which can be accessed via an access lane off Sidup Hill. There is understood to be the remains of a bake-house in one garden. The front setting of nos. 180-188 Rectory Lane consists of small forecourts enclosed by modern railings for the central three houses and by modern timber fencing for the end two houses. At the southern end of the row is small, public open space beyond which lies the crossroads between Rectory Lane, Sidcup Hill and Foots Cray High Street.

Fixed to the northern end of the row is locally listed building, which is understood to be a ‘stable barn’ constructed of timber weatherboards with a gabled M-shaped clad in slate. This outbuilding is set behind a high, red brick wall (Flemish bond) that fronts directly onto Rectory Lane, projecting slightly further forward than the frontages of nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane. This ‘stable barn’ is located within the grounds of the grade II listed The Old House, no. 170 Rectory Lane (NHLE: 1359396) and may be curtilage listed structure. The

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Old House is believed to date from the 1820s but to contain parts of a Tudor structure. It appears Georgian in character and is two-storeys in height and stuccoed with sash windows. It has a low, hipped roof in slate with two, small dormer windows. The Old House is set back from Rectory Lane behind an unusual timber fence. Views north along Rectory Lane also take in the locally listed Hope Community School, which is a landmark building.

Overall, these aspects of the setting of Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane are considered to make a moderate positive contribution to their heritage significance (aesthetic and historical values/special architectural and historic interest). This setting provides space to appreciate the individual architecture of the principal elevations of each house and the composition of the group of houses; offers more limited views of some rear elevations; and enables the group’s landmark status within the Conservation Area. The presence of other historic buildings in Rectory Lane also provides an historic context and its proximity to Foots Cray High Street enables some understanding of the historically, transitional role of this terrace in the village at the junction between the predominantly commercial High Street and the predominantly residential Rectory Lane.

Views out from the frontage of some of these houses, especially those at the northern end of the row, take in partial views of the application site and the existing buildings. It is possible that there may also be some limited views from the upper floors of the houses across Rectory Lane. These partial views are most obvious along the access lane between Ivor House and the shops at 1-5 (odd) Foots Cray High Street. These modern buildings, however, screen most of the site and its buildings from view from nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane. Historically, it appears that nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane would have looked out onto buildings on the corner of Rectory Lane and Foots Cray High Street, which may have included buildings in the location of Ivor House, the rear buildings fronting into Foots Cray High Street and outbuildings/buildings set back from Foots Cray High Street. This may have included buildings within the application site. Ivor House, the shops at 1-5 (odd) Foots Cray High Street and the existing Lidl buildings are modern and not particularly sympathetically designed in terms of form and materials to their location within an historic village. They do not positively contribute to an historic setting for nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane, although views of this listed building are not affected. The application site is, therefore, considered to make a negligible, negative contribution to setting and hence to the significance of Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane (historical and aesthetic values).

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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5.4 Non-designated Heritage Assets

5.4.1 Locally Listed Buildings

As can be seen from the map in Appendix A, there are a number of locally listed buildings in close proximity to the site. The site visit established that only two of these have settings and hence significance potentially affected by the Proposed Development. These are discussed below. The remainder have been scoped out of further consideration in this HS primarily due to a lack of intervisibility.

5.4.1.1 Hope Community School

Hope Community School is located to the west of the northern part of the application site on the eastern side of Rectory Lane. It is a locally listed building. The following is taken largely from the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008). A school was first built on the site in the early 19th century following the donation of land and funding for the buildings by Benjamin Harenc (1780-1825). Harenc was the son of a French immigrant whose father purchased Footscray Place in 1773. He was a local gentleman and philanthropist and as well as founding the school, he also founded the Bromley Savings Bank and was County Magistrate and the Deputy Lieutenant for (The Gentleman’s Magazine 1825). The school was formerly known as the Foots Cray National School and the Foots Cray Church of England School. In 1883, the school was rebuilt (Nunns and Levy) and named Harenc School. It is possible that the northern, two-storey part of the building is the older 1815 school and school master’s house.

The building’s design is Gothic Revival, which was common for National Schools and denominational schools of the Victorian period (Historic England 2011a, 3-4). The building addresses Rectory Lane and is one-and-a-half to two-storeys in height with a low, red, patterned tiled roof. It has an asymmetrical design. Three gables of differing sizes and designs face Rectory Lane and the northern one is interrupted by a tall, clock tower with a red, tiled, pyramidal roof topped with a weather vane. This tower appears to contain the main entrance door, although there is another door on the southern elevation of the building. The building is constructed of yellow and red stock bricks with stone dressings for the windows and doors and timber barge boards and half-timbered gable ends. It has been extended in phases to the rear and northern and southern ends. Harenc School has more recently been renamed the Hope Community School.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Figure 6: Hope Community School from Rectory Lane.

The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) identifies Hope Community School as a local landmark. It is visually prominent in views north-east and south-west along Rectory Lane due to its scale, the height and form of its bell tower and its forward building line. The building also features in two significant views identified in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) in both directions along Rectory Lane. Hope Community School marks the entrance to the former village of Foots Cray from the countryside to the north and Rectory Lane itself provides the transition between the surrounding rural landscape and the urbanised village core.

Hope Community School is considered to be of medium heritage significance for its historical and aesthetic values. It is also likely to be of communal value to former and current pupils and staff, as well as to local community, given it has functioned as a local school for over a century. This locally listed building also makes a positive contribution to the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

The front setting of Hope Community School is formed by Rectory Lane and its predominantly residential properties, many of which are listed and locally listed. To the immediate north-east of the school buildings is an access lane into the northern part of the site beyond which is a playground and recreation. Further north again is All Saints’ Church

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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and Foots Cray Place both of which have historic associations with Hope Community School. Benjamin Harenc’s family lived at Footscray Place and donated an alabaster pulpit to the church in 1886 and his father is buried there (London Borough of Bexley n.d.; All Saints Church Foots Cray n.d.).

To the immediate south-west of the school buildings is the locally listed War Memorial. This was erected in the interwar period and but commemorates the 48 men of Foots Cray village who died in the World War One and 14 who died in World War Two. It is formed of a white, stone cross with a long shaft set on a square pedestal and a three-step base. It is set within a small garden bound by hedges and railings (Imperial War Museums 2017). The War Memorial was built on an area of gardens formerly located to the south of the school that has been built on from mid-20th century onwards, most notably with the construction of the community hall. With the exception of this hall, which the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) describes as being of ‘only limited townscape merit’, these key positive features of the school’s setting have changed relatively little except for infill residential development in the gardens on the western side of Rectory Lane.

The rear setting of Hope Community School consists of the northern part of the application site and in particular the Donavan Bros warehouse and associated hardstanding and parking areas. Although historical maps indicate a relationship between the school site and former gardens at the rear, the gardens became increasingly developed and part of the urbanised part of the village. The school and its grounds and the application site are now visually separate due to modern pallisade fencing and mature trees and other vegetation. The trees along this boundary are identified as significant in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008).

Setting, in particular the front setting of Hope Community School, is considered to make a moderate positive contribution to its heritage significance (aesthetic and historical values). It provides space to appreciate its architecture and landmark qualities, understand its original and current function and provides its historic, edge-of-village context. Due to its visual separation, however, the site is considered to make a low contribution to the overall significance of the locally listed Hope Community School, with its significance primarily lying in the building’s aesthetic and historical values, which are best experienced in its front setting.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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5.4.1.3 Former Red Lion Public House

The former Red Lion Public House is located to the south-west of the southern part of the application site and is located on the south side of Foots Cray High Street. It is a locally listed building. The following is taken largely from the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008). Relatively little is known about the former Red Lion Public House. The main part of the building is understood to date from the 19th century but was built around an earlier structure believed to date from the 16th century. This places this locally listed building alongside the grade II listed Tudor Cottages and the grade II listed Seven Stars Public House as one of the oldest surviving structures in Foots Cray. The pub is believed to have begun trading around 1823 (Ideal Homes n.d.). The earliest trade directory entries are from 1832 (Dover-Kent Archives n.d.; Pubs History 2016) but historical maps only start labelling it as a public house from 1895 onwards. It appears to have continued in use as a public house, presumably with accommodation in the upper floors, until about 2015.

The main part of the building is two-and-a-half storeys in height. The building incorporates an early 19th century cottage shop at its western end, which is two-storeys in height. From 1938, both buildings were linked via an ornate, ground floor frontage at ground floor level set on the pavement edge. This comprises three sets of pilasters, the end two framing doors, and the middle set possibly having contained one door and one window. Between the groups of pilasters are two large, multi-paned windows with central fanlight features. This later frontage helps provide a unified front elevation to the two buildings. The frontage of the upper floors is finished in roughcast render and the windows are sashes on the ground floor and casements in the gable ends. The roofs are gabled and of red tiles both parts of the building have brick and rendered, in gable wall chimney stacks.

The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008, 9) identifies this as a landmark building and there is one significant view from outside no. 1 Foots Cray High Street that focuses on the former Red Lion Public House and another from the same location extending south-east along Foots Cray High Street that takes in this locally listed building in its periphery.

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Figure 7: Former Red Lion Public House from Foots Cray Lane.

The former Red Lion Public House is considered to be of low (local) significance, primarily for its aesthetic and historical values as one of Foots Cray’s historical public houses. It may also be of some communal value for the local community, especially those that used to frequent this apparently notorious establishment. It also makes a positive contribution to the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area.

The rear setting of the former Red Lion Public House is very modified and appears to consist of a large rear extension and hard landscaped car park enclosed by modern, brick boundary walls fronting onto Evry Road. There is modern housing on both sides of Evry Road. The front setting of the former Red Lion Public House is of more importance and is formed by Foots Cray High Street and the buildings that front onto it. Positive aspects of this front setting are the building’s relationship to the road, which is close to the crossroads between Foots Cray High Street, Sidcup Hill and Rectory Lane. This location enables good views of its principal elevation, which would have been important in attracting customers. It also enables views in the context of other surviving historic buildings nearby, in particular the grade II listed Tudor Cottages located to the south-east of the former Red Lion Public House

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Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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separated by the modern Prospect House. This helps understanding of the building’s role and location within the historic core of Foots Cray village. The front setting of the former Red Lion Public House is considered to make a moderate positive contribution to its overall heritage significance. However, its significance is considered to predominantly lie in its own history, surviving form, fabric and features, and its landmark qualities.

There are oblique views towards the southern part of the application site from the frontage of the former Red Lion Public House and the existing Lidl foodstore is visible. Although historically, the former Red Lion Public House would have looked out towards buildings fronting onto the northern side of Foots Cray High Street, the existing buildings (including the existing Lidl) are modern buildings and do not provide an historic context for this locally listed building. As such, the application site is considered to make a negligible, negative contribution to setting and hence to the significance of the former Red Lion Public House (historical and aesthetic values).

6.0 Assessment of Impacts

The following application drawings have been provided for assessment:

• Site Location Plan (No. 090001, dated March 2017); • Topographic Survey (No. 12766/T/01-03, dated June 2015); • Topographic Survey (No. 12766/T/03-03 Revision A, dated June 2015); • Existing Site Plan – Ground Floor (No. 010004 Revision 6, dated 20 March 2017); • Existing Site Plan – First Floor (No. 010005 Revision 5, dated 20 March 2017); • Existing Store Plan (No. 010006 Revision 4, dated 20 March 2017); • Existing Elevations (No. 020002 Revision 4, dated 24 March 2015); • OPTION 3 – Proposed Site Plan with New Proposed Houses - Ground Floor (No. 010100 Revision 10, dated June 2017); • Proposed Store Plan (No. 010101 dated June 2017); • Proposed Roof Plan (No. 010102, dated June 2017); • Proposed Elevations (No. 020001, dated June 2017); • Townhouses Floor Plans – Ground Floor Plan (No. 010103 Revision 2, dated March 2017); • Townhouses Floor Plans – First Floor and Second Floor Plans (No. 010104 Revision 1, dated March 2017); • Mixed Use Development Townhouse Elevations (No. 010200 revision 1, dated 22 May 2015); and • Design and Access Statement (Boyes Rees Architects).

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6.1 Demolition of Existing Buildings

None of the existing buildings and structures within the application site are heritage assets. There would be no impacts, therefore, resulting from their loss.

The existing Lidl foodstore is located within Foots Cray Conservation Area and the associated parking areas and the Donovan Bros warehouse are located within its setting. The front, southern part of the site, including the existing Lidl foodstore, has been identified as making a slight negative contribution to the significance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area, while the northern part of the site has been assessed as making a neutral contribution to the setting and hence the significance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area. As such, the demolition of the existing buildings on the site will have at most a slight positive impact on the character and appearance of this Conservation Area, including this part of its setting.

For this reason, the application site is considered to be one where there is potential for new development within the Conservation Area, as referred to in the Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008).

Figure 8 (left): Existing Lidl foodstore. Figure 9 (right): Existing Donovan Bros warehouse.

The existing buildings within the application site are visible to varying degrees from within the settings of three grade II listed buildings (Tudor Cottages, The Seven Stars Public House and Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane) and two locally listed buildings (Hope Community School and the former Red Lion Public House) located nearby. These views have been identified as making negative contributions to the settings and hence the significance of these three designated heritage assets and two non-designated heritage ranging from negligible to at most low in the case of the locally listed Hope Community School. As such, the demolition of the existing buildings is considered to have negligible positive impacts on the settings and significance of four of these heritage assets and a slight positive impact on the setting and significance of the locally listed Hope Community School. This is

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largely due to the removal of modern buildings that do positively contribute to historic context.

6.2 Proposed Foodstore and Townhouses with Parking and Landscaping

6.2.1 Foots Cray Conservation Area

At the front of the application site at its southern end it is proposed to construct a row of five, townhouses fronting onto Foots Cray High Street in place of the existing Lidl foodstore. This part of the Proposed Development, as well as an area of soft landscaping and part of the parking area, are located within the Foots Cray Conservation Area. Although Foots Cray High Street is the main road through the village and the focus of most its commercial activities, it has always contained a mix of residential as well as commercial uses. Historical maps show that there were buildings in this location fronting onto Foots Cray High Street with a small number of gaps provided access to their rears. Historical photographs also indicate that these buildings were two-and-a-half stories in height. As such, there are no concerns about the proposed positioning, scale and height of this element of the proposal.

The new building also has some advantages in appearance over the existing Lidl foodstore. Compared to the existing Lidl foodstore, the proposed townhouses are more appropriate in footprint and scale to that shown on historical maps and in historical photographs in this location. The access road to the site remains in its current location but there would be a small area of soft landscaping between the road and the flank wall of the proposed townhouses. Historical maps show a number of gaps between the buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street in the vicinity of the application site, which although are not in the same precise location as this access road and area of landscaping, are reflected in the part of the scheme’s layout. The small area of green open space also helps to enhance the appearance of Foots Cray High Street by reminding us that it was a former village in a rural setting.

As with the existing Lidl foodstore, the new building is divided into five, distinct bays (houses) with breaks in the roof line between each dwelling. Although the height of the new building is also similar to the existing Lidl foodstore, the ridge line of each house follows the changes in ground level along Foots Cray High Street, which helps give each house its own character and improves the massing of the group. Each house has a front door and a standard arrangement of windows on each floor, giving the building an open and active frontage unlike the closed appearance of the Lidl foodstore. The design also means that each house reads as an individual building and as a group composition. The design has,

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therefore, overcome the concern expressed during pre-application consultation that there would be a gap in the active frontage of the site, which would not preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Conservation Area.

The form and materials of the houses also reference other buildings located within the Conservation Area, for example, each bay being narrower, use of a lighter brick than the existing Lidl, the gable ends with timber weatherboards and the small, centrally placed dormer windows. Further details of external materials and fenestration should, however, be required by condition to ensure that they preserve the character and appearance of the Conservation Area and other nearby heritage assets.

Figure 10: View north-west along Foots Cray High Street with application site on right and Tudor Cottage and former Red Lion Public House on left.

Two significant views along Foots Cray High Street, which feature the existing Lidl foodstore, would also be slightly improved with the proposed townhouses in situ, given their positioning, scale, form and design. No views of the principal elevations of listed buildings, locally listed buildings and/or landmark buildings or significant trees would be affected by this part of the proposal.

Overall, this part of the Proposed Development is considered to have a slight positive impact on the character and appearance of Foots Cray Conservation Area as compared to the existing situation.

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Figure 11: View south-east along Foots Cray High Street. Application site in left background. Former Red Lion Public House and Tudor Cottages on right.

The replacement Lidl foodstore and most of the parking and the remaining soft landscaping would be constructed within part of the northern setting of the Foots Cray Conservation Area. This is an area of land historically used as gardens and service yards and later for commercial and industrial uses with outbuildings and separate buildings added over time. As such, the character and appearance of most the application site has evolved from a transitional space between the historic core of the village and the rural countryside beyond to part of the urbanised core of Foots Cray village. The Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (London Borough of Bexley 2008) does not mention this site as positively contributing to the setting of the Conservation Area and indeed explains that it was excluded from the boundary of this designated heritage asset, along with other land, because it did not relate to the character of the streetscene.

The proposed Lidl foodstore represents an improvement to the existing Donovan Bros warehouse. It has a smaller footprint, extending less far south and west. It appears to be lower in height and has the appearance of a lighter structure, especially on the glazed south- west elevation, which is the most visible from within the Foots Cray Conservation Area. The extent of the hard surfaced car parking appears similar to the existing. However, there would be a small increase in the amount of soft landscaping within the application due largely to the creation of the small, soft landscaped, open space in the north-west corner of the

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application site in the location of the northern access from Rectory Lane into the application site. Overall, this part of the Proposed Development provides a more open setting to the majority of the application site taking it slightly closer to its historical character and appearance and helping the site play slightly more of a role as a transition space between the historic, urban core of the village and the surrounding countryside.

Figure 12: View of the rear part of application site.

The rear part of the proposal will not affect any significant views within the Conservation Area, nor any important views of heritage assets and landmark buildings. No significant trees appear to be affected either.

Taking this all into account, it is considered that the rear part of the Proposed Development within the setting of the Foots Cray Conservation Area would have a negligible positive impact on its overall significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) as a designated heritage asset.

6.2.2 Listed Buildings

6.2.2.1 Tudor Cottages

The grade II listed Tudor Cottages are located to the south of the southern part of the application site on the opposite side of Foots Cray High Street. Although the Tudor Cottages historically looked out across Foots Cray High Street towards buildings fronting onto the opposite side of the road, the proposed houses would provide a more sympathetic context than the existing Lidl foodstore due to their positioning, scale, form and design. As compared to the existing Lidl foodstore, the new townhouses are considered to have a slight positive impact on the front setting and hence the significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) of this designated heritage asset.

Part of the south-west elevation of the proposed Lidl foodstore and some of the associated hard surfacing and parking may be partially visible in views north along the existing access road off Foots Cray High Street from the western end of the frontage of this designated heritage asset. These views from within the front setting of Tudor Cottages would, however, be so similar to existing views of the Donavan Bros warehouse and the associated parking

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areas Lidl that there would be no impact on the significance of this designated heritage asset (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) resulting from this change to its context.

Neither key elements of the Proposed Development would affect significant views involving the principal elevation of this grade II listed building within Foots Cray High Street.

Figure 13: View from access road off Foots Cray High Street with rear of existing Lidl foodstore to left and western end of Tudor Cottages in central background.

6.2.2.2 The Seven Stars Public House

The Seven Stars Public House is located to the south-east of the application site. The rear of proposed townhouses and their private, enclosed back gardens may be visible from parts of the rear setting of the grade II listed Seven Stars Public House. However, the new houses are smaller in footprint and would be considerably less visible than the rear of the existing Lidl foodstore and its undercroft car park, providing a more sympathetic, open context. As such, this element of the Proposed Development is considered to have a slight positive impact on the rear setting and hence the significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) of this designated heritage asset.

Parts of the southern end of the replacement Lidl foodstore are also likely to be visible from within the rear setting of the grade II listed The Seven Stars Public House. However, these

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views are likely to be oblique and partial due to differences in ground levels and some screening provided by trees. Overall the character and appearance of the rear setting of The Seven Stars would not materially change as a result of this part of the new development and as such, there will be no impact on the setting and hence the significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) of this designated heritage asset.

Views of the rear of this grade II listed building, which are of lesser importance to its overall significance, will be unaffected by the proposal as will significant views of its principal elevation from within its more important front setting within Foots Cray High Street. Its landmark building status is unaffected by the proposal.

Figure 14: View from rear setting of The Seven Stars Public House towards application site. Rears of buildings fronting Foots Cray High Street on left, rear of existing Lidl foodstore, undercroft and surface car parking in centre; part of Donovan Bros warehouse on right.

6.2.2.3 Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane

Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane is located to the west of the application site. It is possible that the rear of the proposed townhouses and their gardens will be visible from the front windows of the upper floors of the grade II Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane and from the frontages of nos. 186 and 188 along the access lane that leads from Rectory Lane to the garages for Ivor House and into the application site. This

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element of the Proposed Development will, however, be less visible and more sympathetic in appearance than the bulky rear of the existing Lidl foodstore. This improvement is considered to have a negligible positive impact on part of the front setting and hence the significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) of this designated heritage asset.

It is possible that occupants of these grade II listed houses may also see partial and oblique glimpses of the new Lidl foodstore and the associated hard surfacing from their upper floors across Rectory Lane and over Ivor House and the community hall. Any such views are, however, considered to be so similar to existing views of the Donovan Bros warehouse that there would be no impact resulting from this part of the Proposed Development on this designated heritage asset’s front setting and hence significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values).

Important views of the principal elevations of this row of terraced houses in both directions along Rectory Lane but also from the junction with Sidcup Hill and Foots Cray High Street would be unaffected by this part of the proposal, as would the group’s landmark building status.

Figure 15: From eastern end of access lane close to Ivor House garages to Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane.

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6.2.4 Locally Listed Buildings

6.2.4.1 Former Red Lion Public House

The locally listed, former Red Lion Public House is located to the south-west of the application site on the southern side of Foots Cray High Street. There would be oblique views of the frontage of the new townhouses from the front setting of the former Red Lion Public House. Although the former Red Lion Public House would have historically looked out across Foots Cray High Street towards buildings fronting onto the opposite side of the road, the proposed houses would provide a more sympathetic context than the existing Lidl foodstore due to their positioning, scale, form and design. As compared to the existing Lidl foodstore, the new townhouses are considered to have a slight positive impact on the front setting and hence the significance (special architectural and historic interest/aesthetic and historical values) of this non-designated heritage asset.

Given the differences in ground levels and the screening provided by nos. 1-13 (odd) Foots Cray High Street, the proposed Lidl foodstore at the rear of the site would not be visible from the frontage of the locally listed, former Red Lion Public House in Foots Cray High Street. There would be no impact on the setting and significance of this non-designated heritage asset from this element of the Proposed Development.

No significant views of the former Red Lion Public House in Foots Cray High Street would be affected by the proposal and neither would its landmark building status.

Figure 16: View from just west of former Red Lion Public House towards existing Lidl foodstore/proposed new townhouses across Foots Cray High Street.

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6.2.4.2 Hope Community School

The locally listed Hope Community School is located to the west of the application site. Although historically the land to the rear of this School was open and green and may originally have been associated with the School, there have been large-sized buildings at its rear since the late 19th century. There is also a band of significant trees and vegetation, as well as fencing separating the School and the application site.

It is considered that the replacement Lidl foodstore with the hard surfaced parking constructed within the rear setting of this School would be so similar to the existing Donovan Bros warehouse that there would be no impact on the significance (aesthetic and historical values) of this locally listed building. This takes into account the lower ground level of the rear part of the site, the relatively low contribution that the rear setting makes to the School’s overall significance and that key positive features of the School’s more important front setting would be unaffected with the new food store in situ, in particular views of its principal elevation from Rectory Lane, its landmark qualities in significant views in both directions along Rectory Lane and its relationship to other historic buildings and structures nearby, especially the locally listed War Memorial.

Figure 17: Existing access to northern part of application site from Rectory Lane to be replaced with small, soft landscaped, open space.

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Part of the proposal involves the closure of the access road to the immediate north of the School and the creation of a small, soft landscaped, open space. This a welcome improvement given that, historically, the School had a setting more like this in character, and it will enhance the role that the Rectory Lane and the School play in the transition from urbanised village core to the surrounding rural countryside.

The Proposed Development also involves some changes in boundary treatments between the application site and the rear of Hope Community School. A section of modern palisade fencing is to be removed and a retaining wall is to be constructed towards the northern end of the School. None of the significant trees in this location appear to be affected. The wall also extends north-east, around the edge of the proposed small, soft landscaped space, and connects to the northern boundary of the application site. Further details of this wall should be required by condition to ensure that it preserves the setting of the locally listed school and does not harm any significant trees.

Assuming these works are appropriate detailed, however, these elements of the proposal are considered to slightly enhance the School’s setting in front and rear views, and hence its significance (aesthetic and historical values), which would be slight, positive impact.

Figure 18: View of rear of Hope Community School from application site showing existing modern fencing and trees.

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There may also be limited, oblique views of the rear of the proposed townhouses from the rear setting of the locally listed Hope Community School. Any such views within the rear setting of this non-designated heritage asset would be partial, with screening provided by the existing significant trees and by the proposed replacement Lidl foodstore. Historically there may have been a link between the School and part of the application site; however historically there were also buildings fronting onto Foots Cray High Street in the location of the proposed townhouses. With the Proposed Development in situ, the rear setting of the School would also be more open and the townhouses would provide a more sympathetic context than the existing Lidl foodstore due to their positioning, scale, form and design. Given this and the limited nature of any views, this part of the Proposed Development is considered to amount to a negligible positive impact on the setting and significance (aesthetic and historical values) of this locally listed building. No significant views of the locally listed Hope Community School or its landmark status would be affected.

7.0 Mitigation and Conclusion

In conclusion, the Proposed Development involves the demolition of all existing buildings and structures on the application site, none of which are heritage assets. The application site is, however, partly located within the Foots Cray Conservation Area and partly within its setting and within the settings of three, grade II listed buildings (Tudor Cottages, The Seven Stars Public House and Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane)) and two locally listed buildings (the former Red Lion Public House and the Hope Community School), which are located in Foots Cray High Street and Rectory Lane. The proposed demolitions has been found to have positive impacts on the character and appearance of the Conservation Area and its setting as well as the settings and significance of other heritage assets ranging from slight to negligible.

The proposed construction of a replacement Lidl foodstore at the rear of the site and five townhouses at the front of the site has been assessed and found to give rise to no negative impacts. Indeed elements of the Proposed Development have been assessed as delivering slight to negligible positive impacts on the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area and part of its setting, and the settings and significance of these designated and non-designated heritage assets.

Given the findings in the impact assessment, mitigation measures are not considered to be necessary.

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Overall the proposal has been found (in NPPF terms) to give rise to no harm to the significance of designated heritage assets, in particular to the Foots Cray Conservation Area, grade II listed Tudor Cottages, grade II listed The Seven Stars Public House and the grade II listed Belgrave Place, nos. 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane, and to cause no harm to the significance of non-designated heritage assets, namely the former Red Lion Public House and the Hope Community School.

The Proposed Development is, therefore, considered to have preserved and in some cases enhanced the settings of three listed buildings and the character and appearance of the Foots Cray Conservation Area in accordance with sections 66(1) and 72(1) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

The proposal is, therefore, considered to comply with policy 7.8 of the London Plan (2016), policy CS19 of the Bexley Core Strategy (2012) and saved policies ENV46, ENV47 and ENV51 from the London Borough of Bexley’s 2004 Unitary Development Plan (2012 Addendum) and as such, there are no heritage reasons why planning permission could not be granted subject to with appropriate conditions to manage external materials, boundary treatments and tree protection.

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8.0 Bibliography

All Saints Foots Cray (n.d.) All Saints Foots Cray. Available: http://www.allsaintsfootscray.org.uk/aboutus.htm [accessed 8 September 2017].

BSI (2013) Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings (BS 7913: 2013).

DCLG (2012) National Planning Policy Framework.

DCLG (2014) Planning Practice Guidance Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment.

Dover Kent Archives (n.d.) Red Lion, High Street, Foots Cray. Available: http://www.dover- kent.com/2015-project/Red-Lion-Foots-Cray.html [accessed 8 September 2017].

Greater London Authority (2016) The London Plan 2016.

Historic England (1996) London Terrace Houses 1660-1860.

Historic England (2008) Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment.

Historic England (2011a) Designation Listing Selection Guide: Education Buildings.

Historic England (2011b) Designation Listing Selection Guide: Commerce and Exchange Buildings.

Historic England (2011c) Designation Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 1: Vernacular Houses.

Historic England (2011d) Designation Listing Selection Guide: Domestic 2: Town Houses.

Historic England (2011e) Designation Listing Selection Guide: Commemorative Structures.

Historic England (2015) Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets.

Historic England (2016) Understanding Historic Buildings. A Guide to Good Recording Practice. HMSO (1990) Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act.

HMSO (1990) Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act.

Ideal Homes (n.d.) History of Foots Cray. Available: http://www.ideal- homes.org.uk/bexley/assets/histories/foots-cray [accessed 8 September 2017].

Ideal Homes (n.d.) Tudor Cottages, Foots Cray High Street, 1930, 1971 and 1978. Available: http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bexley/assets/galleries/foots-cray/tudor-cottages-1930 [accessed 8 September 2017].

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Imperial War Museums (2017) Foots Cray War Memorial ref. 58110. Available: http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/58110 [accessed 8 September 2017].

London Borough of Bexley (n.d.) Foots Cray Place. Available: https://www.bexley.gov.uk/sites/bexley- cms/files/Foots-Cray-Place-local-history-article.pdf [accessed 8 September 2017].

London Borough of Bexley (2008) Foots Cray Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan.

London Borough of Bexley (2012) Bexley Core Strategy.

London Borough of Bexley (2012) Saved Policies from the London Borough of Bexley 2004 Unitary Development Plan (2012 Addendum).

Pubs History (2016) Red Lion, High Street, Foots Cray. Available: https://pubshistory.com/KentPubs/FootsCray/RedLion.shtml [accessed 8 September 2017].

The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 95 (566-569) From July to December 1825 Obituary – Benjamin Harenc, Esq. Available: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IDuKkn8S64MC&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=benjamin+harenc& source=bl&ots=3AzOhhLWZH&sig=Axom2Ocny7LpmmlsA7u4aHnqpfY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiR rvGfiozWAhXF7xQKHVZYB-sQ6AEIPjAF#v=onepage&q=benjamin%20harenc&f=false [accessed 8 September 2017].

The Georgian Group (n.d.) The Georgian Townhouse.

The Lost Pubs Project (n.d.) Red Lion, Sidcup, Kent. Available: http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/kent/sidcup_redlion.html [accessed 13 September 2017]

The Lost Pubs Project (n.d.) Tigers Head, Sidcup, Kent. Available: http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/kent/sidcup_tigershead.html [accessed 13 September 2017]

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9.0 Appendices

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Appendix A: Heritage Assets Map

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Legend ± Site Boundary #* Listed Buildings

Registered Park & Garden

Foots Cray Conservation Area 1064202 #* Locally Listed Buildings

1064212

1359396 1188531 0 20 40 80 120 160 200

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RH SR-P September 2017 V1 Created: Checked: Date: Version:

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright and database right 2017. All rights reserved. 1188354 1359410 Arndale Court Headingley Leeds LS6 2UJ

TEL: +44 (0)113 2787111 FAX: +44 (0)113 2750623 e-mail: [email protected]

Sheet Size: A3 Scale of Original: 1:3,000 Client: Lidl UK GmbH

Project: Lidl and Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray

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Site and Heritage Assets Location Map

Office: Project No: Figure No: 4108 A105276 1 Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street

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Listed Buildings List Entry No. Name/Address Grade 1064202 Parish Church of All Saints, Rectory Lane II* 1064212 Walnut Tree Cottage, 164 Sidcup Hill II 1188531 Belgrave Place, 180-188 (even) Rectory Lane II 1188354 Tudor Cottages, 1-4 Foots Cray High Street II 1359396 The Old House, 170 Rectory Lane II 1359410 The Seven Stars Public House, Foots Cray High Street II

Locally Listed Buildings Name/Address Foots Cray Bridge, Foots Cray High Street Former Red Lion Public House, Foots Cray High Street Stable Barn, 170 Rectory Lane War Memorial, Rectory Lane Hope Community School (Harenc School), Rectory Lane

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Appendix B: Methodology

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Heritage Impact Assessment Methodology

WYG’s evaluation and assessment criteria have been developed using a combination of the Secretary of State’s criteria for Scheduling Monuments (Scheduled Monument Statement, Annex 1), Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Volume 11, Part 3, Section 2, HA 208/07 and Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG Unit 3.3.9, Heritage of Historic Resources Sub-Objective). Professional judgement is used in conjunction with these criteria to undertake the impact assessment.

Heritage Significance (Cultural Heritage Value)

The table below provides guidance on the assessment of significance for all types of heritage assets, including archaeological sites and monuments, historic buildings, historic landscapes and other types of historical site, such as battlefields, parks and gardens. The table considers both designated and non-designated heritage assets.

Level of Examples Significance Very High World Heritage Sites, Scheduled Monuments of exceptional quality, or assets of acknowledged international importance or can contribute to international research objectives. Grade I Listed Buildings and built heritage of exceptional quality. Grade I Registered Parks and Gardens and historic landscapes and townscapes of international sensitivity, or extremely well preserved historic landscapes and townscapes with exceptional coherence, integrity, time-depth, or other critical factor(s). High Scheduled Monuments, or assets of national quality and importance or that can contribute to national research objectives. Grade II* and Grade II Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas with very strong character and integrity, other built heritage that can be shown to have exceptional qualities in their fabric or historical association. Grade II* and II Registered Parks and Gardens, Registered Battlefields and historic landscapes and townscapes of outstanding interest, quality and importance, or well preserved and exhibiting considerable coherence, integrity time-depth or other critical factor(s). Medium Designated or undesignated assets of regional quality and importance that contribute to regional research objectives. Locally Listed Buildings, other Conservation Areas, historic buildings that can be shown to have good qualities in their fabric or historical association. Designated or undesignated special historic landscapes and townscapes with reasonable coherence, integrity, time-depth or other critical factor(s). Assets that form an important resource within the community, for educational or recreational purposes. Low Undesignated assets of local importance.

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Level of Examples Significance Assets compromised by poor preservation and/or poor survival of contextual associations but with potential to contribute to local research objectives. Historic (unlisted) buildings of modest quality in their fabric or historical association. Historic landscapes and townscapes with limited sensitivity or whose sensitivity is limited by poor preservation, historic integrity and/or poor survival of contextual associations. Assets that form a resource within the community with occasional utilisation for educational or recreational purposes. Negligible Assets with very little or no surviving cultural heritage interest. Buildings of no architectural or historical note. Landscapes and townscapes that are badly fragmented and the contextual associations are severely compromised or have little or no historical interest.

Magnitude of Impact

The magnitude of the potential impact is assessed for each site or feature independently of its significance. Magnitude is determined by considering the predicted deviation from baseline conditions. The magnitude of impact categories are adapted from the Transport Assessment Guidance (TAG Unit 3.3.9) and Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Volume 11, Part 3, Section 2, HA 208/07.

Magnitude of Typical Criteria Descriptors Impact Substantial Impacts will damage or destroy cultural heritage assets; result in the loss of the asset and/or quality and integrity; cause severe damage to key characteristic features or elements; almost complete loss of setting and/or context of the asset. The assets integrity or setting is almost wholly destroyed or is severely compromised, such that the resource can no longer be appreciated or understood. (Negative). The proposals would remove or successfully mitigate existing damaging and discordant impacts on assets; allow for the restoration or enhancement of characteristic features; allow the substantial re-establishment of the integrity, understanding and setting for an area or group of features; halt rapid degradation and/or erosion of the heritage resource, safeguarding substantial elements of the heritage resource. (Positive). Moderate Substantial impact on the asset, but only partially affecting the integrity; partial loss of, or damage to, key characteristics, features or elements; substantially intrusive into the setting and/or would adversely impact upon the context of the asset; loss of the asset for community appreciation. The assets integrity or setting is damaged but not destroyed so understanding and appreciation is compromised. (Negative). Benefit to, or restoration of, key characteristics, features or elements; improvement of asset quality; degradation of the asset would be halted; the

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Magnitude of Typical Criteria Descriptors Impact setting and/or context of the asset would be enhanced and understanding and appreciation is substantially improved; the asset would be bought into community use. (Positive) Slight Some measurable change in assets quality or vulnerability; minor loss of or alteration to, one (or maybe more) key characteristics, features or elements; change to the setting would not be overly intrusive or overly diminish the context; community use or understanding would be reduced. The assets integrity or setting is damaged but understanding and appreciation would only be diminished not compromised. (Negative). Minor benefit to, or partial restoration of, one (maybe more) key characteristics, features or elements; some beneficial impact on asset or a stabilisation of negative impacts; slight improvements to the context or setting of the site; community use or understanding and appreciation would be enhanced. (Positive). Negligible / No Very minor loss or detrimental alteration to one or more characteristics, features Change or elements. Minor changes to the setting or context of the site. No discernible change in baseline conditions. (Negative). Very minor benefit to or positive addition of one or more characteristics, features or elements. Minor changes to the setting or context of the site No discernible change in baseline conditions. (Positive).

Magnitude (scale of change) is determined by considering the predicted deviation from baseline conditions. Quantifiable assessment of magnitude has been undertaken where possible. In cases where only qualitative assessment is possible, magnitude has been defined as fully as possible.

Any embedded mitigation is considered in the impact assessment and this is clearly described in this section (cross referring the development description). Therefore, the magnitude of the impacts described in the impact assessment will be considered stated before and after additional mitigation has been taken into account.

Impacts may be of the following nature and will be identified as such where relevant:

• Negative or Positive. • Direct or indirect. • Temporary or permanent. • Short, medium or long term. • Reversible or irreversible. • Cumulative.

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For the purposes of this Heritage Statement, substantial negative impacts are considered to amount to ‘substantial harm’ to designated heritage assets in National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) terms. Moderate-slight negative impacts to designated heritage assets are considered to be ‘less than substantial harm’ in NPPF terms. Negligible negative impacts/no change and neutral effects are not considered to amount to any material harm to designated heritage assets.

For the purposes of this Heritage Statement, negative impacts that are moderate in magnitude or greater indicate that the special architectural or historic interest of Listed Buildings or their settings and/or the character or appearance of Conservation Areas would not be preserved in terms of section 16, 66 and 72 of the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

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Appendix C: Local Planning Policy

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London Plan (2016) Policy 7.8 Heritage assets and archaeology Policy Strategic

A London’s heritage assets and historic environment, including listed buildings, registered historic parks and gardens and other natural and historic landscapes, conservation areas, World Heritage Sites, registered battlefields, scheduled monuments, archaeological remains and memorials should be identified, so that the desirability of sustaining and enhancing their significance and of utilising their positive role in place shaping can be taken into account.

B Development should incorporate measures that identify, record, interpret, protect and, where appropriate, present the site’s archaeology.

Planning decisions

C Development should identify, value, conserve, restore, re-use and incorporate heritage assets, where appropriate.

D Development affecting heritage assets and their settings should conserve their significance, by being sympathetic to their form, scale, materials and architectural detail.

E New development should make provision for the protection of archaeological resources, landscapes and significant memorials. The physical assets should, where possible, be made available to the public on-site. Where the archaeological asset or memorial cannot be preserved or managed on-site, provision must be made for the investigation, understanding, recording, dissemination and archiving of that asset.

LDF preparation

F Boroughs should, in LDF policies, seek to maintain and enhance the contribution of built, landscaped and buried heritage to London’s environmental quality, cultural identity and economy as part of managing London’s ability to accommodate change and regeneration.

G Boroughs, in consultation with , Natural England and other relevant statutory organisations, should include appropriate policies in their LDFs for identifying, protecting, enhancing and improving access to the historic environment and heritage assets and their settings where appropriate, and to archaeological assets, memorials and historic and natural landscape character within their area.

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Bexley Core Strategy (2012) Policy CS19 Heritage and archaeology The Council will manage its heritage and archaeological assets, whilst seeking opportunities to make the most of these assets, including adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. This will enhance the local sense of place and underpin the revitalisation and development of the borough, including promoting the visitor economy. This will be achieved by: a promoting the borough’s heritage assets, such as Danson Mansion, and Gardens, Beam Engine House and Red House; b reviewing the status of existing and identifying new heritage and archaeological assets; c conserving and enhancing the significance of heritage assets, their setting, and the wider historic environment, including statutorily listed buildings; locally listed buildings of architectural or historic interest, conservation areas, registered parks and gardens, and archaeological sites; d protecting heritage assets from development that is likely to adversely impact on the significance, integrity, character or appearance of an asset or its setting; e supporting historic restoration schemes through partnership working and seeking funding to enhance heritage and archaeological assets in an appropriate and sympathetic manner; and f retaining, in situ, archaeological evidence within sites, wherever possible. Where archaeological evidence cannot be retained, the appropriate levels of archaeological investigation and recording should be undertaken prior to the redevelopment of the site.

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Saved Policies from the London Borough of Bexley’s 2004 Unitary Development Plan (2012 Addendum)

Policy ENV46

Any new development, alterations or extensions to existing buildings or structures within Conservation Areas should preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the area and in order to promote a high standard of design, the following shall apply:

1. other than in exceptional circumstances, outline applications will not be appropriate and all applicants will be expected to indicate clearly how the Proposed Development relates to surrounding buildings; 2. design guidelines will be produced for each Conservation Area as resources permit; 3. Planning Briefs and design guides will be produced where appropriate for particularly important or sensitive sites; and 4. developers will be encouraged to employ the specialist services of qualified professionals such as architects, urban designers and town planners.

Policy ENV47

The Council will generally oppose the demolition of buildings or alterations that involve the removal of parts of buildings within Conservation Areas, where they contribute to the character or appearance of the area.

Policy ENV51

The Council will oppose the demolition of any listed building, in whole or in part, or of any structure within the curtilage of a listed building which contributes to the character of that building and will resist any proposals which detract from the setting of a listed building and in considering any proposal to alter or extend a listed building, will have regard to the desirability of preserving the building and its setting.

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Appendix D: Historical Maps

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OS six-inch: Kent VIII (includes: Borough Of ; and Sidcup.) Surveyed: 1862 to 1868 Published: 1870.

OS six-inch: Kent VIII.SE (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup.) Revised: 1895 Published: 1898.

OS 25-inch: Kent VIII.11 (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup) Revised: 1908 Published: 1909.

OS six-inch: Kent VIII.SE (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup.) Revised: 1907 to 1908 Published: 1910.

OS 25-inch: Kent VIII.11 (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup) Revised: 1930 Published: 1933.

OS six-inch: Kent VIII.SE (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup.) Revised: 1930 Published: ca. 1933.

OS six-inch Kent VIII.SE (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup.) Revised: 1938 Published: ca. 1945.

OS 25-inch: Kent VIII.11 (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup) Revised: 1939 Published: 1947.

OS six-inch: Kent VIII.SE (includes: Chislehurst and Sidcup.) Revised: 1938 Published: ca. 1947.

TQ4671-TQ4771 - A (includes: Chislehurst And Sidcup) Surveyed: 1959 Published: 1961.

TQ4670-TQ4770 - A (includes: Chislehurst And Sidcup) Surveyed: 1959 Published: 1960.

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Appendix E: List Entry Summaries

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TUDOR COTTAGES List Entry Summary This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. Name: TUDOR COTTAGES List Entry Number: 1188354 Location TUDOR COTTAGES, 1-4, FOOTS CRAY HIGH STREET The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. County: Authority District: Bexley District Type: London Borough Parish: National Park: Not applicable to this List entry. Grade: II Date first listed: 17-Dec-1980 Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry. Legacy System Information The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System: LBS UID: 198671 Asset Groupings This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information. List Entry Description Summary of Building Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Reasons for Designation Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. History Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Details FOOTS CRAY HIGH STREET 1. 5005 Foots Cray Tudor Cottages (Nos 1 to 4 (consec)) TQ 4770 19/3 II 2. late C15 or early C16. Much restored and extended Wealden house; timber-framed; largely rebuilt behind facade. Formerly open central hall, flanked by 2-storeyed jettied wings under a single hipped

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Heritage Statement roof, with small gablets at each end. Now modernised and storeyed throughout. Four windows to each floor; those to right being in modern extension. References: Medieval Archaeology 12 (1968), page 141; Archaeologia Cantiana 88 (1973), pages 222- 3. Listing NGR: TQ4742270917 Selected Sources Books and journals 'Archaeologia Cantiana' in Archaeologia Cantiana, , Vol. 88, (1973), 222-3 'Medieval Archaeology' in Medieval Archaeology, , Vol. 12, (1968), 141 National Grid Reference: TQ 47422 70917

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180-188, RECTORY LANE List Entry Summary This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. Name: 180-188, RECTORY LANE List Entry Number: 1188531 Location 180-188, RECTORY LANE The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. County: Greater London Authority District: Bexley District Type: London Borough Parish: National Park: Not applicable to this List entry. Grade: II Date first listed: 25-Aug-1954 Date of most recent amendment: 17-Dec-1980 Legacy System Information The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System: LBS UID: 198713 Asset Groupings This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.

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List Entry Description Summary of Building Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Reasons for Designation Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. History Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Details FACTORY LANE 1. 5005 Foots Cray Nos 180 to 188 (even) (formerly listed as Nos 4 to 8 (consec) Church Road) TQ 4771 17/11 TQ 4770 19/11 25.8.54 II 2. Probably built in 1737. Terrace of 5 houses. Three storeys and attic. Each house has 2 windows; flush-framed sashes with glazing bars intact. Hipped dormers to attic. Ground floor windows altered; No 184 has curved window. Six-panelled doom. Red brick, colour-washed; brick stringcourses between storeys; moulded wooden eaves cornice; tile roof. Rear elevation of 2 storeys, weatherboarded, with extensions. Many bricks on ground storey are initialled and dated 1737. Listing NGR: TQ4737971011 Selected Sources Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details National Grid Reference: TQ 47379 71011

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THE SEVEN STARS PUBLIC HOUSE List Entry Summary This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. Name: THE SEVEN STARS PUBLIC HOUSE List Entry Number: 1359410 Location THE SEVEN STARS PUBLIC HOUSE, FOOTS CRAY HIGH STREET The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. County: Greater London Authority District: Bexley District Type: London Borough Parish: National Park: Not applicable to this List entry. Grade: II

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Date first listed: 05-Mar-1974 Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry. Legacy System Information The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System: LBS UID: 198672 Asset Groupings This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information. List Entry Description Summary of Building Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Reasons for Designation Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. History Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Details FOOTS CRAY HIGH STEEET 1. 5005 Foots Cray The Seven Stars Public House TQ 4770 19/4 5.3.74 II 2. Probably C16 or earlier. Two storeys. Timber-framed weatherboarded. Original range at right-angles to road, with gable end rising from pavement. Two sashes on ground floor; small window in gable. Main entrance front with one sash and one casement. Right-hand part faced in roughcast and C20 porch in angle below. Side and back of old range also of painted weatherboarding; various sashed and other windows. Tile roof. Large C20 extension at right angles to the original building. Listing NGR: TQ4751170910 Selected Sources Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details National Grid Reference: TQ 47511 70910

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Appendix F: Report Conditions

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Heritage Statement: Lidl & Donovan Bros Site, Foots Cray High Street This report is produced solely for the benefit of Lidl UK GmbH and no liability is accepted for any reliance placed on it by any other party unless specifically agreed by us in writing. This report is prepared for the proposed uses stated in the report and should not be relied upon for other purposes unless specifically agreed by us in writing. In time technological advances, improved practices, fresh information or amended legislation may necessitate a re-assessment. Opinions and information provided in this report are on the basis of WYG using reasonable skill and care in the preparation of the report. This report refers, within the limitations stated, to the environment of the site in the context of the surrounding area at the time of the inspections. Environmental conditions can vary and no warranty is given as to the possibility of changes in the environment of the site and surrounding area at differing times. This report is limited to those aspects reported on, within the scope and limits agreed with the client under our appointment. It is necessarily restricted and no liability is accepted for any other aspect. It is based on the information sources indicated in the report. Some of the opinions are based on unconfirmed data and information and are presented accordingly within the scope for this report. Reliance has been placed on the documents and information supplied to WYG by others, no independent verification of these has been made by WYG and no warranty is given on them. No liability is accepted or warranty given in relation to the performance, reliability, standing etc. of any products, services, organisations or companies referred to in this report. Whilst reasonable skill and care have been used, no investigative method can eliminate the possibility of obtaining partially imprecise, incomplete or not fully representative information. Any monitoring or survey work undertaken as part of the commission will have been subject to limitations, including for example timescale, seasonal, budget and weather related conditions. Although care is taken to select monitoring and survey periods that are typical of the environmental conditions being measured, within the overall reporting programme constraints, measured conditions may not be fully representative of the actual conditions. Any predictive or modelling work, undertaken as part of the commission will be subject to limitations including the representativeness of data used by the model and the assumptions inherent within the approach used. Actual environmental conditions are typically more complex and variable than the investigative, predictive and modelling approaches indicate in practice, and the output of such approaches cannot be relied upon as a comprehensive or accurate indicator of future conditions. The potential influence of our assessment and report on other aspects of any development or future planning requires evaluation by other involved parties. The performance of environmental protection measures and of buildings and other structures in relation to acoustics, vibration, noise mitigation and other environmental issues is influenced to a large extent by the degree to which the relevant environmental considerations are incorporated into the final design and specifications and the quality of workmanship and compliance with the specifications on site during construction. WYG accept no liability for issues with performance arising from such factors. September 2017 WYG Environment Planning Transport Ltd.

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