LAWSHALL CHARACTER ASSESSMENT: Character Area…Donkey Lane………Assessor(s)…Jean & Margaret……………………… Date…15/05/2016……….

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Topography Buildings Layout Roads, streets, routes Landscape setting / Type (detached, semi-detached, Relationship between buildings, spaces & roads. Vehicular routes, narrow country lanes, gradient of the local area terraced); Storeys; Age; Predominant Roads linear or winding. Regular or irregular footpaths, alleyways, bridleways, wide or (flat, sloping, valley, features, materials, roof types. house layout. Garden sizes & shape. Description narrow verges plateau, hilltop) of any gaps & spaces between houses. Country Lane extending All houses are 2 storey with 9 Homes are in small clusters of 2, 3, 4 with two Donley Lane is a pretty quiet lane between about 1 mile from The detached & 2 semi-detached. home standing alone, one of which is the new & Stanningfield. There is access to Street, Lawshall. chicken farm manager’s house. The other is Frithy Wood and tracks to Barfords, Potash There is a gentle incline A range of types with 4 grade 2 listed, Barfords which is about 200 yards down a track Farm and the Chicken Farm. to 340’ above sea level at 3 of which are thatched. and is surrounded by a moat with a small Barfords, then a decline woodland, and paddocks. The verges are wide in long stretches and toward Stanningfield. One Victorian cottage and 5 brick built narrow at other parts. C20th properties most of which are All houses are on the west of the lane except the rendered in muted colours. chicken farm house and Potash Farm which is at the parish boundary and on the East of the lane. One C21st brick house. Roofs are mainly tiled. Several properties have a few acres of land while Land Uses others have long gardens except for one which Residential, leisure & There are several farm buildings and a was built at the end of a garden of an existing recreation, farmland, large storage garage. property on The Street. grazing, commercial, conservation Mostly crop-producing farm land plus a chicken farm and several small fields with sheep and cows. A few residential homes sprinkled along the lane and a large storage garage.

Streetscape Green & natural features Views Summary of key characteristics / other observations Lamp posts, benches & seating, Trees, hedgerows (tall, wide, Important views within, looking into or street surfacing materials, short), dense scrub, ponds, looking out of the character area. signage, boundaries (hedges, streams, woodland (new, (Record location of viewpoint, and fences, walls) ancient) direction and extent of view). No lamp posts or street lights A huge oak tree in the Looking south west in winter to All A lovely, pretty, quiet lane with an assortment of old and but telegraph & electricity Strawson’s field best viewed in Saints Church. Lovely views of Frithy newer well-kept homes in different styles. poles. winter. Many native trees and Wood. Important access to Frithy Wood and two farms. Mainly edged with high hedges mature hedges with ditches. A wide and far reaching view (10 miles) and numerous mature trees, Locals say the rivers Lark & from Barfords track across farmland Verges with masses of flowers in spring and summer. plus some extensive open Stour rise from the high point towards to the east. From Many beautiful mature trees that form archways in places views. 340’, the Lark going North & here when clear lights at Mendelsham down the lane. Ancient high hedges edge the lane. the Stour south. and RAF can be seen. Also The Leylandii trees hiding the large garage are the most Frithy Wood is an important the Sudbury mast and the water towers out of place feature. local amenity. Wide verges in at Tye and Lavenham. places with many wild flowers.

Landmarks Village spaces Distinct & instantly recognisable Parks, playing fields, local features (buildings, cemeteries, village greens, car statues, monuments and other parks, squares features both built & natural) Frithy Wood and a small old Frithy Wood brick built building on the bend at Carpenters Cottage. The huge Leylandii trees around the large garage.

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR KIND HELP AND ASSISTANCE! Lawshall Neighbourhood Plan Team