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LYVEDEN COTTAGE CHANGE OF USE, EV CHARGER AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT INCLUDING HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT APRIL 2021 Written by Chris Lambart BA(Hons) BPl MRTPI FRGS image © National Trust Images /Mike Selby 1. Introduction GPA 3 reiterates the definition of settings as the surroundings within This statement accompanies an application for planning permission which a heritage asset is experienced. It advises that the importance and listed building consent at Lyveden Cottage. It fulfils the of setting lies in what it contributes to the significance of the heritage requirements of a Design and Access Statement and a Heritage asset or allows significance to be appreciated. It sets out a five step Impact Assessment. approach to considering effects on setting: Step 1: identify which heritage assets and their settings are The proposals seek to turn the cottage back to a house, which will be affected; operated as a National Trust holiday cottage. Internal alterations, Step 2: assess the degree to which these settings and views together with the installation of an electric vehicle charging point, are make a contribution to the significance of the heritage asset(s) or proposed in support of this. allow significance to be appreciated Step 3: assess the effects of the proposed development, whether beneficial or harmful, on the significance or on the ability to 2. Historic England guidance appreciate it; The Trust has had regard to general Historic England guidance, such Step 4: explore the way to maximise enhancement and avoid or as its Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance (2008), minimise harm; Historic Environment Advice Note 2 Making Changes to Heritage Step 5: make and document the decision and monitor outcomes. Assets (2016), Good Practice Advice in Planning 2 – Managing Significance in Decision-Taking in the Historic Environment (2015) and Good Practice Advice in Planning 3 – The Setting of Heritage Assets (2017). GPA 2 suggests a six-step approach: 1. Understand the significance of the affected assets; 2. Understand the impact of the proposal on that significance; 3. Avoid, minimise and mitigate impact in a way that meets the objectives of the NPPF; 4. Look for opportunities to better reveal or enhance significance; 5. Justify any harmful impacts in terms of the sustainable development objective of conserving significance and the need for change; 6. Offset negative impacts on aspects of significance by enhancing others through recording, disseminating and archiving archaeological and historical interest of the important elements of the heritage assets affected. Lyveden Cottage as a tea room ©National Trust Images/Mike Selby 1 3. History of the cottage in the drawing is also shown closer to the garden mound, although it Sources consulted: could simply be the artist moving the mound to improve the composition. • National Trust archives • Lyveden New Bield Conservation Management Plan, Dr A 1791 engraving (figure 2) shows a Cottage very like the one that Andrew Eburn & Dr Kate Felus, 2010 now exists. The existing two-storey element matches the engraving, • Lyveden Conservation Management Plan, Hilary Taylor as does the form of the lean-to on the north side. The engraving Landscape Associates, 2014 possibly shows a single-storey element at the west end of the house, • The Ruins of Liveden; Thomas Bell, 1847 although this is not clear. The 2010 and 2014 Conservation • National Heritage List entries for: Management Plans for Lyveden report that the cottage was originally o Lyveden Cottage (1040348) called Verderer’s Cottage and suggest it was built to be occupied by o Lyveden New Bield Historic Park and Garden gamekeepers, associated with the sporting use of Fermyn (or (1001037) Farming) Woods. o Lyveden New Bield Listed Building (1371907) o Lyveden New Bield and Garden Scheduled Monument 19th century (1003640) In 1847, Thomas Bell recorded, “A neat cottage, the only dwelling for Lyveden Manor or Old Bield (1040347). o some distance, stands near the ruins…, and where the visitor can be • 1885-6 1st edition OS 25-inch plan assured of finding decent temporary accommodation, and every attention and civility; and where the key of the building can be Overview (figures are in Appendix A) obtained, on application, without any difficulty.” The cottage is situated between the New Bield and the moats and mounds of the formal garden. Its main elevation, with the front door The building outline shown on the 1885-6 1st edition OS 25-inch plan and most of the windows, faces south-south-west between the (figure 3) is consistent with the building now seen other than minor mounds and the New Bield. This arrangement suggests that the differences on the north west corner. This is seen in more detail in a cottage was intended to overlook the ruins and moat, both of which later survey drawing of the ground floor (figure 4), which shows the pre-date it, possibly for practical rather than aesthetic reasons. lean-to along the north side of the cottage as a fuel store with an outside toilet (earth closet) joined to its western end. The single In 1987 it was listed grade II, with the list entry summarising it as a storey element at the west end of the building was shown as a wash th th mid-18 century cottage altered in the 19 century. house. 18th century 20th century A dwelling on this site is shown in a 1721drawing of the New Bield by In 1922, the cottage was acquired by the National Trust as part of its Tillemans (figure 1). However, the house in that drawing is acquisition of Lyveden New Bield. Acquisition of the New Bield by substantially different from the Cottage now in existence – having the Trust had been discussed for several years and a preservation dormer windows, no parapets and a single chimney mounted half- committee established in 1913. Archives of the Lyveden New Bield way along the ridge rather than a chimney at each end. The house 2 Preservation Committee 1913-19611 show that following acquisition OS 1:2500 includes the lobby. A date in the late 1960s is consistent by the National Trust, the cottage was let to tenants with a with the style of work, documentary evidence and condition photos requirement to look after the New Bield and open it to visitors. from 1980. Lettings were initially directly by the National Trust but from 1947 were through an arrangement with the owner of Lyveden Manor. Figures 5 and 6 show the layout in 1985. At some point between 1985 and 2013, the kitchen was remodelled with the larder partition The cottage was broken into in early 1949, when vacant, and removed. suffered a chimney fire that Autumn, which caused considerable damage to the sitting room. A sequence of short tenancies in the 21st century 1950s was followed by improvements to the building in 1954 In 2013, the Cottage was converted to a mixed use comprising a including a new oven and boiler and roof repairs. However, the tearoom, office and staff flat. The ground floor bathroom was sub- cottage was left empty when Lyveden Manor changed hands in July divided to create two visitor toilets. A shower room and kitchen were 1957. In 1958 the cottage was reported as being in a deplorable created upstairs by sub-dividing one of the bedrooms. A partition state. The National Trust decided to “put the cottage in order.” This and fire door were installed on the landing and the middle bedroom was done by October 1961, when a tenant again took possession. opened out onto the landing. The resulting layout is shown in the application drawings as the existing layout. Figure 4 had previously been dated to 1969. However, a drainage plan in the National Trust archives (figure 5) suggests that by 1964 a bathroom had been introduced in the area which figure 4 shows as a larder. A bathroom and easily accessible water closet were increasingly seen as a requirement of decent housing through the mid-20th century. Although their lack did not automatically make a The doorway across the landing, house “unfit” in the 1950s and 1960s they were factors to be taken added in 2013, is to be removed into account under the 1957 Housing Act and targeted as and re-used in replacing the 2 improvements through government grants . opening into the middle bedroom by a conventional The outside toilet was subsequently brought into the house by doorway extending the lean-to roof, creating a lobby that also gave a new access to the former wash house. The wash house became the kitchen, with a partition at the far end to create a larder. The former fuel store became a room, with an outside door and window created at the east end as well as a way through to the lobby. An exact date for this work is not known but the outline of the cottage on the 1971 1 Reported in Appendix 7.2 of the 2010 CMP, written by Geoffrey Fairhurst 2 Information from the English Housing Survey, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1967 3 4. Heritage designations 5. Heritage significance Lyveden Cottage was listed grade II in 1987 (list entry 1040348). The primary significance of the cottage is as part of a group with the The listing states: early 17th century New Bield garden lodge and the remains of the 16th century formal garden. Although of a later date, it has co- House. Mid C18, altered mid C19. Squared coursed limestone existed with the New Bield and garden for at least 300 years and with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan. 2 storeys. 3- been associated with their upkeep and enjoyment for at least the last window range of C19 two- and 3-light stone mullion windows.