CHAPTER 6 110 DERBY TALL BUILDINGS STUDY FINAL REPORT 6 HERITAGE, VIEWS AND SENSITIVITY 6.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the heritage assets in Derby and summarises their sensitivity to tall buildings. The full assessment of each heritage asset can be found in Appendix 1. It further discusses Derby’s key views, which are identified in the Skyline Study (2019). The most sensitive aspects of the views are mapped as view cones. This provides a way of spatially determining where tall building proposals require particular scrutiny. Figure 6.1 shows all the heritage assets in Derby. These are discussed in detail in the following section. Figure 6.1: Derby city-wide heritage assets 111 6 HERITAGE, VIEWS AND SENSITIVITY North Mill Darley Abbey 6.2 HERITAGE ASSETS Conservation Area DVMWHS Leylands Estate Buffer Zone Conservation Area World 6.2.1 INTRODUCTION Heritage Site Figure 6.2 to Figure 6.4 provide a detailed view of the heritage assets in and around the CBD, with Stone House Prebend the most significant assets labelled. The following pages provide a discussion of the heritage of Derby and the various assets types. Little Chester Conservation Area Strutts Park Conservation Area Church of St. Anne City Centre Conservation Area Nottingham Road Conservation Area Friar Gate Conservation Area Green Lane & St. Peter’s INSET 2 INSET 1 Conservation Area Railway Conservation Area St. Luke St. Peter & St. Paul Hartington Street Conservation Area Figure 6.2: Derby city key heritage assets labelled Arboretum 112 Conservation Area 6 HERITAGE, VIEWS AND SENSITIVITY DERBY TALL BUILDINGS STUDY FINAL REPORT St.Mary’s RC St. Mary’s Bridge Church Rykneld Mills Chapel St. Helen’s House St. John the Evangelist St. Mary’s Bridge County Hall 35-36 St. Mary’s 43-44 Friar Gate Gate The Silk Mill 42 Friar Gate 27 Friar Gate All Saints Cathedral Church St.Werburgh’s Church 47-51 Friar Gate City Museum & Art Gallery The Guildhall 41 Friar Gate 48 Sadlergate 99 Friar Gate Workshop Carriage Shop The Friary Hotel 33 Wardwick Wardwick Tavern Clock Tower Roundhouse engine shed Church of St. Peter The Old Grammar School War Memorial Green Man Inn College of Art Annexe Figure 6.3: Inset 1 - Derby city centre key heritage assets labelled Figure 6.4: Inset 2 - Railway station key heritage assets labelled 113 6 HERITAGE, VIEWS AND SENSITIVITY 6.2.2 DERWENT VALLEY MILLS WORLD HERITAGE SITE (DVMWHS) 6.2.3 SCHEDULED MONUMENTS At around 45 metres AOD, Derby is the lowest manufactured goods south along its navigable Although large parts of the centre of Derby part of the DVMWHS which stretches 24 linear route to the River Trent. During the 19th century have high archaeological potential as a result kilometres north, as far as Matlock Bath. The the river provided the navigation between Darley of its long period of development, including Derby focus is the Silk Mill, originally built on an Abbey and Derby, to the Derby Canal. During the industrial development, there are only a handful island, and the River Derwent. The Silk Mill and its preparation of the Skyline Study in 2018, it became of scheduled ancient monuments within the City. river setting form the introduction to the valley, clear that in Derby there are certain attributes These include the Roman fort of Little Chester, the both historically (as the origination of the factory that lie outside the buffer zone, such as weirs site of a Roman bathhouse and hypocaust system system) and geographically and logistically, as this and water management systems that survive and the detached Roman vicus (small Roman is the location of the former Industrial Museum, downriver from Exeter Bridge. The river falls within civilian settlement) lying c600m east of the Roman the new 2020 Museum of Making, and the the DVMWHS from the Silk Mill north. Both the fort at the site of the former Derby Racecourse. southern gateway to the DVMWHS. DVMWHS boundary and the Buffer Zone boundary St. Mary’s Bridge, which is a key viewing place, is are intended to be reviewed during the life of the Moving north along the River Derwent the also a scheduled monument, as is the remains of Management Plan1. site of a former silk throwing mill (Bath Street Darley Abbey, a standing building within the Darley Mills) is included in the DVMWHS for its direct The Buffer Zone of the DVMWHS incorporates Abbey settlement. relationship with Outstanding Universal Value. Derby Cathedral, where John Lombe is buried, The valley spreads out at Darley Abbey, where and large areas of land incorporating a large 6.2.4 CONSERVATION AREAS the landscaped parkland associated with Samuel segment of the City Centre Conservation Area, There are sixteen conservation areas in Derby, of Evans house (Darley Hall - Darley Park) and Thomas including the east side of Queen Street, as well as which the largest within the core of the City are: Bridgett’s house (Derwent Bank House – Derwent the western riverside and the river as far south as City Centre, Friar Gate, and Green Lane and St. Park) provide the landscaped setting for the Exeter Bridge, the Strutts Park and Chester Green Peter’s, all of which developed during the medieval factory community of Darley Abbey Mills. Conservation Areas, and a tranche of the east period and during subsequent centuries. There are riverside. The Buffer Zone is just part of the setting Although a number of the original silk mill buildings several conservation areas which lie just outside of the World Heritage Site and structures which have disappeared at the island site, the setting of the Inner Ring Road – Nottingham Road and Strutts are visible from the DVMWHS or which are visible the surviving building incorporates a large area of Park and beyond that, further afield, there are in conjunction with the DVMWHS lying beyond land around it, including Cathedral Green, where conservation areas which have a distinct character, the Buffer Zone may still fall within its setting and the site of former associated buildings, such as where the majority of development took place could therefore affect its significance. the early 18th century Doubling Shop, have been within a narrow timeframe – e.g. Railway, interpreted, and river bridges, from where the mill Little Chester, Darley Abbey, Hartington Street, can be appreciated in its historic context. Arboretum, Leylands Estate. 1 Objective 1.13 of the draft 2020-2025 DVMWHS Management Plan – The River Derwent provided the Navigation during states: “Review the boundaries of the DVMWHS and its Buffer Zone. ACT The City Centre Conservation Area, Friar Gate the 18th century for imported raw cotton and silk 1.13.1 Identify minor modifications needed to clarify the boundaries and Conservation Area, Strutts Park Conservation eliminate any anomalies and submit these changes to UNESCO’s World and bulk transportation of processed fibres and Heritage Committee for adoption.” Area, Green Lane and St. Peter’s Conservation 114 6 HERITAGE, VIEWS AND SENSITIVITY DERBY TALL BUILDINGS STUDY FINAL REPORT Area, Darley Abbey Conservation Area and Railway Further out from the centre are a number of 19th No. 15 – built for the Alsop family. These houses Conservation Area all contain a number of listed century churches, including Christ Church (grade and other grade II* Georgian houses along Friar buildings of the highest national significance, II) and St. Luke (grade II*), which were designed Gate were designed to be appreciated from the listed Grade I and Grade II*. The setting of these to make their landmark presence felt across large street but were built within a more rural setting buildings can relate to the conservation area or residential parts of the city. and originally had spacious gardens, but relatively much further afield, depending largely on the few survive, as development has encroached The other prominent listed landmarks are visibility of key landmarks. around them. The very wide road enables us to St. Mary’s Bridge (grade II* and a scheduled stand back from each side of the street and admire monument), the Guildhall (grade II), the Museum 6.2.5 LISTED BUILDINGS houses in their spacious settings. and Art Gallery (grade II) and the Silk Mill (grade II). There are 388 listed buildings in Derby of which They still command many of the views and are very The medieval core of the town also has a large 47 are listed Grade I or Grade II*. Many of these important to the City image. number of listed buildings, some of very high buildings are focused on the northern settlement status, but it is the combined character and There are now few surviving mill buildings within of Darley Abbey, which lies within the Derwent juxtaposition of narrow burgage plot development the city. Industrial listed buildings, which are Valley Mills World Heritage Site. which has the strongest character and it is often nevertheless important to the city image for the shared setting and visual relationship of these The long history of Christian influence in Derby their design and massing, include, in addition listed buildings, whether medieval or of later has left the centre with All Saints (Grade I - Derby to the Silk Mill, the Rykneld Mill, the surviving date, and their back yards which enhances their Cathedral), St. Werburgh’s (grade II*), St. Peter’s North Midland Railway Works buildings, including significance. (grade II*), and the 19th century St. Mary’s RC the Roundhouse, the Great Northern Railway Church (grade II* and one of the earliest churches warehouse and cast iron railway bridge and the 6.2.6 REGISTERED PARKS AND GARDENS designed by nationally important architect AWN Midland Railway Goods Shed, off Mansfield Road.