Stoke Hammond Conservation Area

STOKE HAMMOND CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991

The attractive village of Stoke Hammond is situated astride the main A4146 road linking Leighton Buzzard and Fenny Stratford, at its junction with the road to Newton Longville.

Rosebank

The Old Oak Barn

Stables BM 84.72m Hidcote

Barn TYRELLS ROAD St Luke’s Church

97.09m

TYRELLS TYRELLS GARDENS The

Sunny Lodge

Oakwood Warren OLD SCHOOL LANE

GADSDEN

Grove Farm Auburn

Ayresome

Pond Pebbles COURT

Orchard

Cottage

The Old Rectory OLD SCHOOL LANE Pennhurst Orchard Cottage

94.7m

CHURCH ROAD

Brandywell El Sub Sta

Swan FENNY ROAD Grove 82.6m Cottage Cottage Birches CLOSE Kreewood 9

SCOTTS Lea Garth Brambles

Mallaig

Stoke Hammond Avalon Laurel Farm Maples

Swan Mead

CHURCH RD Malden Box Tree Cottage 89.9m

Pond Fountaine House Charleston Heatherbank

88.4m BM 93.67m Willcon Rosa APPLEACRES The Nook Pp

Saxon Little Thatch Lodge Hicott NEWTON ROAD Tyrells Tu do r s Clematis Manor

CHASE

Pump Villa

Cottage

HILLERSDON Tu mb ledo wn El Sub Sta Rothschild Cottage Little The 84.4m Orchard Tu do r s Willows

Church Abbotsford

Latrigg

Tumbleweed

Stoke Lodge

MANOR CLOSE

PO LB Fernbank LODGE LANE Pond Stoke Lodge Cottage Hygarth

The Mellows TCB Orchard El End Sub Sta

The Green

CLOSE 78.0m

BELL

OLDE

Track

The

Dolphin (PH)

Track

Not to a recognised scale

The village combines areas which are quite compact and almost urban in character with other areas which are spacious and open, complementing its rural location. The older development is concentrated around the Newton Road junctions with Leighton Road/Fenny Road and the

1 Stoke Hammond Conservation Area

smaller Church Road. The open areas are found around the Grade II Listed Tyrells Manor and small village Green and also around the Grade II Listed Bridge Farm House, Moat Farm House and Little Acre.

The older areas are characterised by high hedgerow enclosure which, in places, is complemented by brick walling. The walling is particularly impressive around the Grade II Listed Stoke Lodge, also along the western side of Church Road and, most notably of all, around the Grade II Listed Old Rectory and the Grade II * Listed Church of St. Luke, alongside the driveway to the Grade II Listed Grove Farm and along the Church Lane frontage.

Although extensively restored in the mid-nineteenth century, the church is primarily fourteenth and fifteenth century in origin. The pleasantly treed churchyard contains an early nineteenth century stone tomb, which is also Grade II Listed, to the Fountain family.

Modern development has been allowed around the periphery of the village, most notably along Fenny Road, Tyrells Road, Tyrells Gardens, Bragenham Side, Old Bell Close, Appleacres and, most recently, either side of Leighton Road around Mount Pleasant and between Bragenham Side and Bridge Farm House.

December 2008