NORTH WARNBOROUGH Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals MARCH 2009

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Contents

THE CHARACTER APPRAISAL

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The North Warnborough Conservation area 1 1.2 Summary of key characteristics and recommendations 1 1.3 The planning policy context 3 1.4 The local policy framework 3 1.5 Article 4 Directions 4 1.6 Community involvement 4

2 Location and landscape setting 5

2.1 Location and activities 5 2.2 Topography and geology 5 2.3 Relationship of the conservation area to its surroundings 6 2.4 Biodiversity 6

3 Historic development and archaeology 9

3.1 Historic development 9 3.2 Archaeology 12

4 Spatial analysis 13

4.1 Layout and street pattern 13 4.2 Open spaces, trees and landscape 13 4.3 Focal points, focal buildings, views and vistas 14 4.4 Boundaries 16 4.5 Public realm 16

5 The buildings of the conservation area 17

5.1 Building types 17 5.2 Listed buildings 17 5.3 Locally listed buildings 18 5.4 Positive buildings 19 5.5 Architectural styles, materials and detailing 20

6 Character Areas 21 7 Issues 25

7.1 Summary of Issues 25 7.2 The quality of new development 25 7.3 Trafﬁ c management and car parking 25 7.4 Article 4 Direction and the control of unlisted buildings 25 7.5 Front boundary treatments 25 7.6 Trees and landscape 25 7.7 Overhead wires and telegraph poles 25 7.8 Conservation area boundary review 25

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals Contents

THE MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS

8 Introduction 27

8.1 Format of the Management Proposals 27

9 Issues and recommendations 29

9.1 The quality of new development 29 9.2 Trafﬁ c management and car parking 29 9.3 Article 4 Direction and the control of unlisted buildings 30 9.4 Front boundary treatments 31 9.5 Trees and landscape 31 9.6 Overhead wires and telegraph poles 32 9.7 Conservation area boundary review 32

10 Monitoring and review 33

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Townscape Appraisal Map and Character Areas Map Appendix 2 Article 4 (2) Direction Appendix 3 Bibliography Appendix 4 Contact details

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 1. The Character Appraisal: Introduction

1.1 The North Warnborough The North Warnborough Conservation Area was Conservation Area designated in 1978 by Hart District Council and reviewed and the area of the conservation area North Warnborough is an attractive, very linear extended in 1992 and covers Bridge Road and village, loosely arranged along the line of the North Warnborough Street from Mill Corner in River Whitewater, which shaped its development the north of the village to Hockley Farm in the and provided a ready source of water for south, as well as North Warnborough Green and both industrial and domestic uses. Much of Odiham Castle. It includes a number of varied the attractive water meadows and commons listed buildings including a mill and Odiham are designated as special areas for nature Castle. conservation. The conservation area is large and encompasses both buildings and extensive Some of the land within the conservation areas of open land which are managed carefully area is also included in the Basingstoke Canal to sustain the rich variety of animal and plant life. Conservation Area which runs east-west across There is a Methodist Church, two public houses North Warnborough. The canal area is land and a variety of houses and cottages, some of is included within the scope of this Character them late medieval in date. The landscape and Appraisal, to reﬂ ect its importance and relevance the village have changed little over time, with to the setting of both areas. the original line of the main through road and the spread out form of the settlement remaining unaltered.

1.2 Summary of key characteristics and recommendations

This Character Appraisal concludes that the key positive characteristics of the North Warnborough Conservation Area are:

• Rural conservation area based on the River Whitewater, part of the Basingstoke Canal, North Warnborough Green, and the buildings in Bridge Road and The Street;

• Notable green spaces and trees, interwoven with man-made and natural water features;

Images, from top left to right: • The River Whitewater • The Street, looking south west • The Basingstoke Canal where it passes below

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 1 • Popular footpaths cross and lead out of the conservation area, particularly along the canal and the river;

• A number of very important historic buildings, particularly the ruins of Odiham Castle (listed grade I);

• The Green meets the road opposite The Jolly Miller, connecting the open green space to the rest of the conservation area;

• The open space opposite The Cat and south of Nevills on Hook Road allows long views out of the village, bringing the countryside into the centre of the village;

• Castlebridge Cottages are timber-framed and date to the 15th and 16th centuries;

• Views from Swan Bridge along the canal;

• High concentration of listed and ‘positive’ buildings in The Street;

• Many barns and out-buildings reﬂ ecting the agricultural roots of the village.

• Mill Corner is notable for its closely packed cottages and winding lanes;

• North Warnborough Green is a wet grassland managed by the Hampshire Wildlife Trust;

• Two surviving water mills, one of which is listed now in use as a restaurant and private house;

Images, from left to bottom right: • Odiham Castle • Former Water Mill in Hook Road, now a restaurant • Historic barns in The Street

2 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals The Management Proposals make the following in conformity with English Heritage guidance Recommendations (summary): as set out in “Guidance on conservation area appraisals” (August 2005) and “Guidance on the • Improve the quality of new development management of conservation areas” (August and preserve the special character of the 2005). Additional government guidance conservation area; regarding the management of historic buildings and conservation areas is set out within “Planning • Consider additional trafﬁ c management Policy Guidance 15: Planning and the Historic and car parking; Environment” (PPG15). Government advice on archaeology, which is relevant to the Kinston • Review the existing Article 4 Direction and Conservation Area, is set out in “Planning Policy ensure that positive unlisted buildings are Guidance Note 16: Archaeology” (PPG16). protected; This document therefore seeks to: • Encourage traditional front boundary treatments; • Deﬁ ne the special interest of the North Warnborough Conservation Area and • Prepare a Tree Management Plan and identify the issues which threaten the protect the landscape within and on the special qualities of the conservation edges of the conservation area; area (in the form of the “Character Appraisal”); • Underground overhead wires and remove telegraph poles as funds allow; • Provide guidelines to prevent harm and achieve enhancement (in the form of the • Amend the conservation area boundary in Management proposals). two places: add Walnut Tree Cottage in The Street and the Methodist Church and neighbouring houses on Bridge Road. 1.4 The local policy framework

These documents provide a fi rm basis on 1.3 The planning policy context which applications for development within the North Warnborough Conservation Area can be Conservation areas are designated under the assessed. The omission of any feature in either provisions of Section 69 of the Planning (Listed the appraisal or the management proposals Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. does not imply that it is of no interest, and A conservation area is defi ned as “an area of because both will be subject to regular review, it special architectural or historic interest the will be possible to amend any future documents character or appearance of which it is desirable accordingly. to preserve or enhance”. It should be read in conjunction with the wider Section 71 of the same Act requires local planning development plan policy framework as set out authorities to formulate and publish proposals in RPG9 – Regional Plan for the South East of for the preservation and enhancement of these England, The Hampshire County Structure Plan conservation areas. Section 72 also specifi es (Review) 1996-2011, adopted in March 2000 that, in making a decision on an application and Hart District Council’s Local Plan, adopted for development within a conservation area, in December 2002. special attention must be paid to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or In the Local Plan, Inset Map No. 23 confi rms appearance of that area. that the following policies apply to the whole settlement of North Warnborough, including the In response to these statutory requirements, conservation area: this document defi nes and records the special architectural and historic interest of the • There is a settlement boundary which is North Warnborough Conservation Area and drawn fairly tightly around the built-up identifi es opportunities for enhancement. It is area of the village;

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 3 • Both North Warnborough Green and the 1.5 Article 4 Directions Basingstoke Canal are designated as SSSIs; An Article 4 Direction was served in January 1988 in the North Warnborough Conservation Area. The aim of the Direction was to prevent the conservation area from being incrementally spoilt by unsympathetic changes which might otherwise have been allowed automatically under house owners’ “Permitted Development” rights. The Direction means that planning permission is required for a variety of works as follows:

• Extensions, improvements or other alterations to a dwelling house;

• Alterations to existing boundaries, or the creation of new boundaries.

• The Whitewater valley is designated as a Riverine Environment protecting its nature conservation, landscape or recreation value;

• Additional policies protect the Basingstoke Canal and its surroundings;

• The area of fi eld between North Warnborough and Odiham is a Local Gap maintaining the separate identities of smaller settlements, providing their setting and preventing coalescence. A copy of the Article 4 Direction can be viewed at North Warnborough lies outside the area the Planning Department, Hart District Council, affected by the Thames Basin Heaths Special Fleet, and a more detailed summary of the Protection Area (SPA) which is designated for Direction is included at Appendix 2. its populations of nightjar, Dartford warbler and woodlark, and consequently, apart from the largest developments, is not a constraint on 1.6 Community involvement development in this area. This document was initially drafted following a The 2002 Local Plan will shortly be replaced by meeting with representatives from Odiham Parish a new Local Development Framework. This new Council and local historians on 27th February 2007, when the extent of the conservation area planning system was established by the Planning boundary was discussed, along with some of and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which the main problems and issues which face the abolishes Structure and Local Plans and replaces community. Following this meeting, a fi rst draft them with Local Development Documents. More was agreed with the District and the document information about this important change to the was then put on the District Council’s website on planning system can be found on the District 15 May. A period of public consultation, including Council’s website: www.hart.gov.uk. an exhibition and evening “surgery” with the Conservation Offi cer subsequently ran for six weeks. After the completion of this period of public consultation, the fi nal draft was produced and the document illustrated and printed.

Images, from left to right: • North Warnborough Greens information sign • The Article 4 Direction has helped to protect these unlisted cottages from unsympathetic alterations (Terry’s Cottages, The Street)

4 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 2. Location and Landscape Setting

2.1 Location and activities

North Warnborough is a small village situated on the northern edge of the Chalk Downs in the valley of the River Whitewater, about eight miles east of Basingstoke and half a mile north- west of Odiham The conservation area boundary encompasses the properties fronting North Warnborough Street, as well as both sides of Bridge Road, Mill Corner and King John’s Castle. These areas surround the ecologically and visually important open spaces of the Green and the River Whitewater.

2.2 Topography and geology

North Warnborough lies on the southern valley side of the River Whitewater and the fringing farmland. In the north the area is generally ﬂ at with the land rising more noticeably in the south of the village. The main thoroughfare in North Warnborough is The Street and Hook Road and Bridge Road, which winds from its highest point at Hockley Farm down to Bartley Heath in the north.

North Warnborough is primarily a residential The geology below North Warnborough is and agricultural village with a working farm mixed, with the chalk bed of the North Downs in the south of the conservation area. Today, to the south meeting the London clays where the area is almost entirely residential, but the Reading Beds form a thin band immediately tanneries, breweries, an abattoir and shops at the edge of the chalk. The history of North once fl ourished. The conservation area has a Warnborough is bound up with water and the restaurant, three public houses and a garage conservation area is bisected by both the River with a small shop although there is no real sense Whitewater and the Basingstoke Canal, which of a village centre. follows the 85m contour. The Whitewater is a north fl owing salmonoid river, which rises at Bidden, fl ows into the Blackwater and eventually

Images, from left to bottom right: • Tunnel Lane • The Blue Anchor Public House in The Street • The underlying chalk has been used in this boundary wall in The Street

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 5 into the Thames. The chalk aquifers which feed the river also supply drinking water to the surrounding population. The need for increasing supply to meet growing population demands has had a detrimental effect on river ﬂ ows and a 3 year study of the effects of abstraction on the river and its valley’s hydrology and ecology is currently being pursued by Natural England, the Environment Agency, SE Water, Hampshire Wildlife Trust and the Whitewater Valley Preservation Society.

2.3 Relationship of the conservation area to its surroundings

North Warnborough is surrounded by undulating, cultivated countryside noted for its agricultural value and landscape quality. The western boundary is deﬁ ned by the River Whitewater and its valley side. Only one mile to the north is the M3 motorway which cuts through the woodland of Bartley Heath and Hook Common. East of the village is Odiham Common, an area of attractive open ﬁ elds and extensive woodland which once formed part of King John’s Deer Park. The rest of the Deer Park, separating North Warnborough from Odiham and cut through by the Basingstoke Canal, is now grazed by sheep.

The main road through the village (the B3349) remains a busy road, particularly with lorries 2.4 Biodiversity heading for Upton Grey. This is a particular problem where the traffi c leaves the B3349 The River Whitewater has been designated as and heads down The Street. The narrowness a SINC for its high quality and the presence of the road and the lack of pavements make of BAP (Biodiversity Action Plan) species. In this area quite unsuitable for the larger vehicles addition both Basingstoke Canal and North which tend to be fast moving despite the traffi c Warnborough Green are designated as SSSIs calming measures in place. with many special species including marsh orchids and the rare slender spike-rush in To the south-west of North Warnborough the profusion. North Warnborough Green is a open fi elds stretch down to South Warnborough. fl oristically rich, unimproved wet grassland. As Odiham lies to the south-east and from well as being important botanically, it supports the southern edge of the conservation area an outstanding variety of invertebrate species. Odiham can be seen through the gaps between The site is owned and managed by the Hampshire buildings. The two villages are less than half a Wildlife Trust. The management objectives of mile apart at this point and the fi elds behind the Trust, laid out in their document ‘Biodiversity Hockley Farm and Laurel Close perform a very Strategy: the Loddon Catchment 2003’, focus important role in preserving the distinction on enhancing the ecological importance of the between the two settlements and also allow green, as well as improving moderate public views between the two. Much of the area access and appearance. The fulfi lment of these around North Warnborough is criss-crossed by objectives will help to enhance the character of footpaths, particularly towards the river, along the conservation area. the Basingstoke Canal and towards Odiham over the Deer Park, making this a popular area for walkers and dog-owners.

Image: • Footpaths criss-cross the countryside around North Warnborough

6 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals Throughout North Warnborough the river and canal provide important ecological corridors for wildlife linking manmade and natural habitats and enabling them to survive increased house building. Management of the wetlands by Hampshire Wildlife Trust includes the reintroduction of grazing and scrub clearance.

The Basingstoke Canal is owned by Hampshire and Surrey County Councils and managed by the Basingstoke Canal Authority. The sluggish waters and continuity of habitat created by long term management have been utilised by many species.

Images, from top to bottom: • North Warnborough Green • The Basingstoke Canal

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 7 8 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 3. Historic Development and Archaeology

3.1 Historic development Warnborough, although a considerable amount of weaving took place in the cottages. Tunnel The name Warnborough comes from the River Lane was previously called Ton Lane in reference Whitewater which ﬂ ows through the village to the large vessels which the cloth dyers who which was originally called the ‘Warnbourne’. worked there used to submerge the cloth.

At the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086, Odiham Hundred, which was owned by William the Conqueror, included the tithing of North Warnborough. Odiham Castle, of which the ruins remain in the North Warnborough Conservation Area, was built by King John around 1207. King John was frequently at his newly-built castle, and used the adjacent Deer Park for hunting. However, by the 15th or early 16th century the castle appears to have fallen into disrepair, for it is not mentioned in a lease of Odiham manor in 1545 and no notice of it appears in a survey of the manor in 1630, though its grounds are mentioned.

In the 12th century there were eight water mills in the Odiham Hundred which were along the river Whitewater. King John destroyed one or more of these mills to build his castle and it is documented that one burned down in 1337. In 1555 a fulling mill and land were granted by Robert Creswell to Nicholas Vaus, and it is possibly this estate which was known during the 16th century as the manor of North Warnborough. On Vaus’s death the estate passed to his son Robert and then onto his son Richard in 1609. After this time there is no further mention of the manor.

Wool was produced by sheep grazing on the Hampshire Downs and woollen and worsted goods were produced in the mills in North

Image: • Odiham Castle

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 9 North Warnborough Historic Map of 1846

10 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals North Warnborough Historic Map of 1888

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 11 The road now known as North Warnborough 3.2 Archaeology Street was the stimulus for the emergence of local trades and therefore the evolution of North In 1929 the foundations of a Romano British Warnborough. There were two beer houses house were found at Lodge Farm in North along the road, The Compasses and The Hope Warnborough. Although the village is not on the and Anchor. Despite sounding like nautical direct line of any known Roman highway, there references, both are thought to be religious are signs that The Street is Roman in origin and references, with The Compasses meaning the whole length of the Harroway which runs ‘God encompasses us’. The Hope and Anchor along the chalk uplands two miles south of North is now known as The Anchor and is still used Warnborough is dotted with Roman evidence. as a public house in The Street. In the Middle Ages, the road was used by pilgrims to Hartley The Archaeology and Historic Buildings Register Wintney Priory and many would have stopped in for North Warnborough records the following North Warnborough for food, refreshment and features: accommodation. • Bronze Age urns found at Chosely Farm; With the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, the volume of trade grew nationally, • Neolithic ﬂ int ﬁ nds including nine and many more traders would have travelled on arrowheads, polished and chipped axes this road to London to sell their wares. While and over 100 oddments found south of the wealthier travellers would have stayed in North Warnborough; Odiham, many would have spent the night in North Warnborough. On the east side of North • An inscribed coin of Commius, a type Warnborough Street, near the roundabout, dated not later than 30 BC, was found there was a drovers’ pond which was used for near the River Whitewater; watering the animals, as well as a blacksmith to replace worn horseshoes. • A Roman villa and associated bath house were excavated to the north-west of By the end of the 19th century many of these Lodge Farm in 1929-31. The site is now a local industries were in decline. Castle Mill scheduled monument and under grass; and North Warnborough Mill were converted to private houses, and the later is now a • Odiham castle is a scheduled monument restaurant, attractively located on the former and is listed grade I; mill pond. North Warnborough is now primarily a residential settlement, relying on the schools and shops elsewhere.

• In the middle of the 16th century there was a chapel-of-ease at North Warnborough which was ‘employed in the time of the plague for ministration to the whole (parish) and for a place to teach children in.” This chapel appears to be destroyed.

Images, from left to right: • Castle Mill House, a former mill • Interpretation panel at Odiham Castle

12 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 4. Spatial Analysis

4.1 Layout and street pattern

North Warnborough is a linear village without any obvious centre. The main roads through the village form a ‘T’ shape with the conservation area concentrated on the top of the ‘T’ running approximately north-south. Entering the village from the north the road passes an area known as Mill Corner – a dense cluster of dwellings on the corner of the Green. Here a road loops around the Green and back towards the main road, although the fords across the stream impair accessibility by car. Dwellings are scattered around the green area, usually close to the road or in some way associated with the river or canal, for example at Castle Mill House which was previously one of the many mills 4.2 Open spaces, trees and in North Warnborough. Hook Road meanders landscape southwards from Mill Corner crossing both the river and the canal (where the road becomes The largest and most signiﬁ cant public space Bridge Road) before reaching the roundabout in in the conservation area is North Warnborough the middle of the village. Hook Road and Bridge Green. Apart from its importance for biodiversity Road have a sense of spaciousness with green and ecology, the green makes an important spaces alternating with small groups of buildings contribution to the conservation area as it to connect the built up area with the Green and the farming land beyond. At the roundabout attracts walkers and picnickers with many public Bridge Road becomes North Warnborough Street footpaths crossing the area. Odiham Castle is (locally known as The Street) and the buildings another popular attraction drawing walkers become more densely packed and tend to be along the canal towpath. The Green is also set closer to the road. visible from the main road, particularly opposite the Jolly Miller Public House where a low timber fence allows views over the Green providing a link between the two areas of the village.

North Warnborough developed along this road with the pattern of building usually one house deep set on, or close to, the road. Modern inﬁ ll has developed behind this line of housing or in There is a small public recreation ground on the spaces between the historic buildings. To Bridge Road, owned by Odiham Parish Council, the east of the conservation area the village which allows views out to the land beyond has expanded considerably as housing has built surrounding the canal. The boundary treatment up along Dunley’s Hill. The larger houses tend to be concealed from the road by brick walls here could be improved to ﬁ t in more with the such as those at Clevedge House and Springwell surrounding area and to improve the appearance House. of this important open space.

Images, from left to bottom right: • Hook Road • Clevedge House • View over North Warnborough Green from Hook Road

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 13 The open space to the south of Nevills in Hook Bridge Road is a more open and exposed area Road is very visible due to its location on a bend offering gaps and views to the countryside but in the road. At present, it looks untidy and is has suffered loss of trees due to gales as well as unused. Open spaces interspersed with houses drought and ageing. The production of a Tree are a signiﬁ cant part of the loosely developed Management Plan by the local community would character of this part of North Warnborough. help to record tree species and identify where Views across the village to and from the canal work needs to be done. and across the surrounding ﬁ elds are an important characteristic of the conservation area. The current boundary treatment of metal chain mesh fencing and sheets of chip board is a particularly unattractive feature and give the site an air of neglect which does not contribute to the character or appearance of the area.

The small fi eld to the north of Hockley in The Street is signifi cant as it allows important views from the otherwise enclosed area of the street across to Odiham in the south-east. In this area the buildings sit closer together leaving little open space and opportunity for views, making this fi eld particularly important.

Footpaths are a key village characteristic. The rural footpath network, complementing roads 4.3 Focal points, focal buildings, throughout the parish, is extensive and well- views and vistas used. The many footpaths in the village link the open spaces together and to the built up area Focal points along the main road. The footpaths also allow The conservation area is large with much open views over the green space in the village and ground and a generally quite low density of provide an immediate link to the surrounding built form, therefore the overall character tends countryside. to be of an unplanned, rural settlement, with buildings taking a lower priority in visual terms than the landscape and trees. However, a few parts of the conservation do provide a focus, often associated with human activity. These are:

• In The Street, mainly in the area round The Anchor Public House, where the buildings sit close to the back of the pavement and create a more urban character;

• At the intersection of the Basingstoke Canal and Mill Lane, where walkers and boat owners mingle;

• On the road between the Jolly Millers Public House and the former mill house, There are a variety of trees and hedges within now the Blubeckers Restaurant, popular North Warnborough which form an integral part with both visitors and locals. of the street scene. The Street appears greener than Hook Road and Bridge Road due to its more enclosed character and the planting in front gardens where they exist. Hook Road and

Images, from left to right: • Trees in The Street • Trees along the canal

14 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals In The Street, the buildings tend to be smaller cottages and more modest houses and one particular stand out apart from the timber-clad barns at the edge of the conservation area, part of Hockley Farm.

Views and vistas Of importance are the open spaces (described in 4.2 Open spaces, trees and landscape) which relieve the linear street scene and allow views between the buildings across to the Green and the canal, connecting the major features of the conservation area.

Views of special note are: Focal buildings Moving from the north: Because of the pattern of building along the road side, some of the buildings stand out in the • The view across the ﬁ eld in front of The street scene and act as landmarks, The Cat and Jolly Miller Public House towards the Nevills in Bridge Road, Springwell House, Cedar castle; Tree House and Cruck Cottage in The Street for example. The Jolly Miller Public House is • The views from Mill Corner north to the particularly important due to its position, set surrounding ﬁ elds and woodland; back from the road, and it is an important focal point in the village. The original Jolly • Views between the buildings on Hook Miller originally fronted the pavement in line Road and Bridge Road to the canal in both with the cottages beyond, but it was rebuilt in directions as the canal loops round; 1908 in the mock-Tudor style prevalent at that time. The architect was Arthur J Stedman of • View from Mill Lane back into the Farnham. Outside the public house is a grass village and outwards to the surrounding verge with a public bench and the village bus countryside in both directions; stop, and opposite, a low fence allows very attractive views over North Warnborough Green, connecting the village street to the open spaces beyond. Next door, the long row of Castlebridge Cottages also stands out as an unusual feature in a rural environment, and beyond, but more important when viewed from the north, Nevills occupies a prominent position on the curve of the road.

• Views across the ﬁ eld next to Hockley Farm in The Street towards Odiham.

These views are all marked on the Townscape Appraisal map.

Images, from top left to right: • The bridge over the canal is a focus for activity • The Jolly Miller Public House • View from Mill Lane to north east

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 15 4.4 Boundaries The wooden posts used only a few metres north along The Street are more in keeping with the In the north of the conservation area boundaries other materials in the conservation area and the tend to be deﬁ ned by hedges and timber fencing. rural character of the village. These are in keeping with the rural area of the green and the more informal character of the Other features of note are: area. Along the main road through the village boundaries are often marked by brick walls, • Street signs are small and unobtrusive, and usually fairly low (around one metre) but higher are generally plastic with black lettering on in some places for example at Clevedge House. In a white background; The Street the conservation area becomes more enclosed and many of the historic buildings are situated on the road edge. Where the dwellings are set back, boundaries are a combination of low brick walls, hedges and timber fencing.

• Many wooden telegraph poles with overhead wires;

There are a number of examples of more modern materials, such as the chain mesh fencing around the recreation ground, which contrasts greatly with the treatments of surrounding properties which have hedges and low-lying walls. Many of these hedges have chain mesh fences as supporting frames for the hedge, so that the planting of a hedge around the recreation ground, using the existing fence as a frame, would serve to blend this boundary into its surroundings.

4.5 Public realm

North Warnborough is a small rural village and the • The street lighting in the conservation area public realm refl ects the countryside setting and is provided by ‘heritage’ style black lanterns informal character of the settlement. In Mill Corner on cast iron columns which is generally in and The Street there are no pavements although keeping with the character of the area and there are areas of traffi c calming in the Street matches the style of the bus shelters on which provide useful areas for vehicles to pass Hook Road; pedestrians. On Hook Road and Bridge Road, the pavements are more in character with the wider • Two modern bus stops and a red cast iron road and busier traffi c, although grass verges post box are located outside The Jolly Miller reinforce the rural location. Plastic black and white Public House on Hook Road. Another post bollards protect some of the grass verges and box is located at the entrance to Laurel historic buildings located on the road edge from Close on The Street. passing traffi c, for example at Springwell Cottage. Images, from left to bottom right: • Hedges are important in Tunnel Lane • A typical street sign • Overhead cables in The Street

16 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 5. The Buildings of the Conservation Area

5.1 Building types

North Warnborough contains a pleasing mix of residential houses and cottages with a variety of agricultural and ex-industrial buildings. The Methodist Chapel, the three public houses, the garage and Blubeckers Restaurant are the only variations from these types. There are several larger houses: Hockley House, Springwell House, Cedar Tree House, Chosely, Clevedge House, Nevills, Castle Mill House and Whitewater. All of the other residential properties are more modest houses or cottages. Of note are the examples of converted agricultural or mill buildings, such as Chosely Barn.

5.2 Listed buildings 1733 (the date of some of the alterations to the house). The roof is of red clay tiles, hipped at There are 40 listed buildings or entries in the each end and with three hipped dormers. The conservation area, all of them grade II apart symmetrical north elevation dates from the 18th from Odiham Castle, which dates from c.1207- century and has three bays with sashes and a 12. The ruined octagonal keep of the castle is central doorway. Single storied extensions partly all that remains and is located within a moated hide a section of exposed timber-frames. The area close to the towpath of the Basingstoke boundary to the road is marked by a low brick Canal. Its octagonal shape is thought to be wall, which rises by curves to two stone-capped unique within England. The walling is ﬂ int with piers, linked by a wall pierced by an arched stone dressings and rises up to three storeys. gateway (circa 1900) containing a wrought iron gate. The wall, gate piers and gate are also listed grade II.

Of the smaller residential listed properties, of note is Tudor Cottage on The Street dating from the 15th century. The cottage contains a medieval timber framed hall, with a ﬁ replace inserted in the 16th century. The frame is exposed on the north side with painted brick inﬁ lls but the front is a later brick-clad elevation of three windows, and with an outshot at the south end. A section of 16th century wall mural has been discovered in a downstairs room.

Otherwise, the listed buildings are mainly in residential uses. A notable village house is Springwell House, part of which is an early 16th century timber-framed hall, with alterations in the early and late 18th century. The main (south) front is of two storeys and an attic, and is arranged symmetrically with a former central doorway which has been converted into a window. The waling is red brick with rubbed ﬂ at arches and blue headers between the upper windows carrying the letters TH and ﬁ gures

Images, from left to bottom right: • Odiham Castle • Springwell House • Tudor Cottage

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 17 The long row of 15th and 16th century jettied timber-framed buildings known as nos. 1 to 12 Castlebridge Cottages are also notable. The central bay was destroyed at some time and has been rebuilt. Using dendro-dating (assessing the date of a piece of timber using the growth rings), the northern range has been dated to 1447-48, and the southern to 1533-34. Most of the front has exposed timber framing in the upper part with studs and braces, all jettied with small arched braces to the main posts. The infi ll is red brick noggin, while the central part has tile hanging on the fi rst fl oor. Road widening and drainage works resulted in the demolition of the cottage on the bend and the cottage on the south end (no. 10) is thought to be an 18th Listing also covers a number of agricultural century addition. The cottages were heavily buildings, for example the granary and barn at restored in the 1930s. Strete Farm, the 18th century barn at Hockley Farm and the barn at Chosely House, now converted into a dwelling.

Other notable listed buildings include The Thatched Cottage on Hook Road. This is a box framed hall house dendro dated to 1445/6. The Cat in Hook Road, built in the 17th century was 5.3 Locally listed buildings once a public house. It has not been denro dated but the framing appears to be 15th century. The District Council has produced a list of locally Strete Farm, also on Hook Road, was built in signiﬁ cant buildings within Odiham parish of the 16th century, and formerly had a timber which eight lie within the conservation area. framed open hall. Cruck Cottage in The Street, Locally Listed buildings are mainly 19th or early has been dated to 1383/4. 20th century structures which provide well detailed facades, and they are Locally Listed to provide them with a degree of additional protection.

In North Warnborough, the Locally Listed buildings are all in residential uses and represent an interesting range of vernacular cottages and smaller houses. For example, in the hamlet of Mill Corner can be seen nos. 1 and 2 Randa Cottages, which are a symmetrical pair of cottages which probably date to the 18th century. They are one Images, from left to bottom right: • The northern range of Castlebridge Cottages • The Cat Public House • Choseley Barn

18 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals and a half storeys high with colour-washed brick 5.4 Positive buildings walls and a roof of clay tiles. They may have been built as ‘squatter’ cottages and it’s likely In addition to the Listed and Locally Listed that they were associated with the nearby mill buildings, a further number of unlisted buildings (now Blubeckers Restaurant). have been identiﬁ ed on the Townscape Appraisal map as being positive buildings of townscape merit. Buildings identiﬁ ed as being positive will vary, but commonly they will be good examples of relatively unaltered historic buildings where their style, detailing and building materials provides the street or landscape with interest and variety. Most importantly, they make a positive contribution to the special interest of the conservation area. Where a building has been heavily altered, and restoration would be impractical, they are excluded.

Positive buildings vary, but generally they are 19th century cottages and agricultural buildings which retain their original form, details and materials. Of note are the cottages located next to the swing bridge at the junction of the Other locally listed buildings include Vine canal and Mill Lane - Riverside, Home Fields, Cottage and Wheelrights in The Street, dating The Glen, Prospect Cottage and Little Grebe to the late 18th or early 19th century. This pair Cottage. They are thought to have been built of two storey cottages has an outshut to each in the early 19th century for weavers and were side, creating a symmetrical composition, and is possibly associated with Castle Mill. The 2- built from brick with a hipped clay tile roof and a storey terraced cottages are built of red brick shared central chimney stack. Wheelrights has although all except The Glen are now rendered. a bay window. They are all well screened from the road and the canal by trees and hedging. The appraisal map identiﬁ es the structures considered to be “positive buildings”.

Policies for the preservation of Locally Listed buildings are included in the Hart Local Plan, adopted in December 2002. Further information is provided in the Management Proposals. Government guidance in PPG15 ‘Planning and the historic environment’ advises that a general presumption exists in favour of retaining those buildings which make a positive contribution to the character or appearance of a conservation

Images, from left to bottom right: • Nos. 1 and 2 Randa Cottages • Vine Cottage and Wheelrights (on left) • Riverside and Prospect Cottage, (in centre) in Mill Lane

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 19 area (paragraph 4.27). The guidance note to the timber frames has been painted white to states that proposals to demolish such buildings contrast with the blackened timbers. There are should be assessed against the same broad examples of thatch in the conservation area at criteria as proposals to demolish listed buildings. The Thatched Cottage, Hook Road and Thatched Again, further information is provided in the Cottage in The Street which is an example of Management Proposals. cruck construction with exposed timbers on the front and the north gable. 5.5 Architectural styles, materials and detailing

The historic buildings in North Warnborough divide into a variety of types, according to use, but of note is the frequent use of red brick and timber framing.

The conservation area is notable for a number of larger, more prestigious houses (Hockley House, Springwell House, Cedar House, Chosely, Clevedge House, Nevills and Whitewater) which have generous gardens and were mainly built in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. They are usually two storeys high with a variety of pitched roofs. The use of sash windows and discrete Georgian details are common in these properties. An exception is Chosely House, being The agricultural buildings are usually timber- built in a more vernacular form with gables and framed, such as the barn on the roadside at a steeply pitched tiled roof. The house is timber Hockley Farm, with black timber weatherboarding framed and mostly clad in red brickwork. or brick noggin as at the small barn to Blubeckers Restaurant. These buildings have simple forms, rectangular or even square, with steeply pitched roofs covered in handmade clay tiles, thatch or slate. Two of the barns have now been converted to domestic use, at Chosely Barn and Queen’s Barn.

On the east side of The Street are Terry’s Cottages, a terrace of more recent dwellings, dating to the late 19th century or even early 20th century. These are built from brick, with casement windows and slate roofs. This row of cottages have survived surprisingly intact and were probably built as farm workers cottages.

The more vernacular residential buildings in the conservation area are also two storeys high but because many of them are 17th or 18th century, they have more steeply pitched roofs (suggesting the earlier use of thatch), low eaves and casement windows. Simple boarded timber doors are common. Most of these buildings are faced in red brick often with some timber framing although this is not always visible. In some places the brick inﬁ ll

Images, from left to right: • Nevills, Hook Road • Cruck Cottage

20 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 6. Character Areas

The North Warnborough Conservation Area • Trafﬁ c noise is audible from the A287 divides into four character areas according nearby; to historical development, street pattern and layout; built form; and uses and activities. • There are areas used for parking and storage These are marked on the Character Area Map which look untidy; and are as follows: • Modern development in the area is not • Mill Corner sympathetic to the traditional materials and styles of the historic buildings; • North Warnborough Green • Overhead wires are intrusive. • Hook Road and Bridge Road

• The Street

Character Area 1: Mill Corner

Key positives:

• Closely packed buildings;

• Historical connection with North Warnborough mill;

• Variety of architectural styles and dates;

• Lane’s Corner is the only listed Character Area 2: North Warnborough building - an 18th century timber framed Green cottage; Key positives:

• Wet grassland owned and managed by Hampshire Wildlife Trust;

• Deﬁ ned in the south by a small stream running past The Cottage ;

• Views to the north over surrounding ﬁ elds.

Key negative characteristics/issues: • Provides the setting for the grade I listed Odiham Castle; • Alterations to listed and positive buildings detract from the character of the area; • Crossed by both the river and the canal forming habitats for wildlife;

Images, from left to bottom right: • Lane’s Corner • Overhead wires in Mill Corner • North Warnborough Green

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 21 • Footpaths provide views across green and • Variety of building types and plot sizes; over surrounding farmland; • A number of former and existing public • Mostly 19th century modest cottages; houses;

• Castle Mill House was once one of the mills • Boundaries formed by low brick walls; in the village; • Views from Swan Bridge along the canal. • The Green has important ecological designations; Key negative characteristics/issues:

• The Green meets the road opposite The • Overhead wires in many locations are Jolly Miller Public House, connecting the obtrusive; open space to the rest of the conservation area; • There are two areas highlighted as needing improvement: the garages opposite • Overhead wires are intrusive. Castlebridge Cottages and the ﬁ eld south of Nevills; Key negative characteristics/issues:

• Overhead wires are intrusive;

• There are issues with pollution of the river due to run off from houses in the village.

Character Area 3: Hook Road and Bridge Road

Key positives:

• Linear settlement with buildings located along the roadside;

• Spaces between the buildings provide views to the Green and the canal; • The quality and scale of some new development is not in keeping with the • Important group of listed buildings around existing buildings. This should not be seen as ‘Blubeckers’ Restaurant, housed in the Old a precedent for any future development; Mill House, and including the 15th and 16th century Castlebridge Cottages; • Some of the boundary treatments could be improved, such as the fence around the recreation ground;

• Overhead wires are intrusive.

Character Area 4: The Street

Key positives:

• High concentration of listed and positive buildings;

• Most buildings located directly on the roadside;

Images, from left to right: • Rear view of Blubeckers Restaurant and Mill Pond • Garages off Hook Road

22 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals • The Street is more densely packed than Bridge Road and narrow in places;

• Trees and hedgerows important;

• Examples of very varies architectural styles and materials including a cruck framed building and various high quality brick and timber houses;

• Field near Hockley Farm provides views to Odiham;

• Many barns and out-buildings reﬂ ecting the agricultural roots of the village.

Key negative characteristics/issues:

• A number of unsympathetic alterations to the unlisted houses which should have been controlled by the existing Article 4 Direction;

• Overhead wires and power lines in many locations seriously detract from the appearance of the conservation area;

• High volumes of fast moving and large vehicles pose a threat to pedestrians and historic buildings located on the roadside;

• Quality of new development should be improved;

• Overhead wires are intrusive.

Image: • Cruck Cottage with Oakholme and Fratton House on right

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7.1 Summary of Issues • Unlisted houses, many of them judged as being positive, have inappropriate windows Based on the Key Negatives/Issues summarised or doors; in Chapter 6, and on comments made during the initial public consultation/walkabout, • Article 4 Direction appears to be ignored the following are considered to be the most or at best poor quality details are being important Issues for the North Warnborough approved. Conservation Area at this point in time: 7.5 Front boundary treatments 7.2 The quality of new development • Some poor quality front boundaries; • Large amount of inﬁ ll development has already occurred, some of this has not been • Need to reinforce the rural qualities of the of high quality; conservation area by encouraging the use of traditional details for walls and fences. • Erosion of character due to loss of gardens and changes to historic plots;

• Generation of more trafﬁ c and general urbanisation of the rural area.

7.3 Trafﬁ c management and car parking

• Fast and frequent trafﬁ c through the conservation area;

• Improvements needed particularly by Mill Corner;

• The Street is particularly vulnerable where the road narrows and there are no pavements; 7.6 Trees and landscape

• Trees are very important but there is no overall strategy to ensure their preservation;

• In places tree planting might be appropriate to hide negative features.

7.7 Overhead wires and telegraph poles

• These tend to be dominant in parts of the conservation area;

• Planned improvements would be welcome.

7.8 Conservation area boundary review • On-street parking provides some informal trafﬁ c calming although it compromises the • As part of the appraisal process, the visual integrity. conservation area boundary was reviewed. It was considered that two amendments 7.4 Article 4 Direction and the control could be made, as detailed in Chapter 9 of unlisted buildings Recommendations.

Images, from left to right: • The lack of a pavement in parts of The Street is an issue • The rural qualities of the conservation area need to be protected

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8.1 Format of the Management Proposals

Part 1 of this document, the Character Appraisal, has identiﬁ ed the special positive qualities of the North Warnborough Conservation Area which make the conservation area unique. Part 2 of this document, the Management Proposals, builds upon the negative features which have also been identiﬁ ed, to provide a series of Issues and Recommendations for improvement and change. Most, but not all, will be the responsibility of the Hart District Council, Odiham Parish Council or Hampshire County Council.

The structure and scope of this document is based on the suggested framework published by English Heritage in Guidance on the management of conservation areas (2005). Both the Conservation Area Character Appraisal and the Management Proposals will be subject to monitoring and reviews on a regular basis, as set out in Chapter 10.

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9.1 The quality of new development density of development on the site or result in the loss of existing garden space. 9.1.1 The control of inﬁ ll development Changes of use such as the subdivision of a large house into smaller units should be The Local Plan conﬁ rms that there is a Settlement controlled to ensure that an increase in the Boundary around the built-up area of North density of development on the site does Warnborough i.e. The Street. Elsewhere in the not harm the conservation area. Additional conservation area, development is unlikely due driveways or parking areas, walls or fences to rigorous policies protecting the green open for example would affect the streetscape of spaces and the valley of the river Whitewater. the village.

A large amount of infi ll development has occurred • New development should not result in a along The Street, mostly dating to the 1960s general increase in the urbanisation of the onwards. Generally the newer buildings sit conservation area, and the rural qualities of reasonably well among the listed and ‘positive’ the area should be preserved. buildings, but they have disrupted the historic form of development and in some cases the materials used, and general bulk and form, of 9.2 Traffi c management and car this more recent development is somewhat out parking of character. There are now no obvious sites for development in The Street but the gardens Local residents are concerned about the fast of the existing properties, some of which are and frequent traffi c which travels through generously sized and which lie within the the conservation area, particularly the large Settlement Boundary, still need to be protected lorries which use The Street to gain access to a from further infi ll buildings. depot at Upton Grey. The Street is particularly vulnerable where the road narrows and there are Recommendations: no pavements, although the on-street parking provides some informal traffi c calming. • The District council will resist applications for new buildings in The Street within the At the other end of the conservation area, close Settlement Boundary where this would to the bypass, the traffi c along the access road result in the loss of open space, or would into the village (the B3349) is also busy as this is adversely affect the setting of historic one of the two main roads into Odiham. Turning buildings (including listed and ‘positive’ into and out of Mill Corner is frequently dangerous buildings); and this is exacerbated by customers accessing Blubeckers Restaurant and the Jolly Miller Public House. Pedestrian movement across the road at this point is also diffi cult because of the bend in the road. Narrow pavements on the canal bridge at Bridge Road means that pedestrians are also vulnerable to fast-moving vehicles.

• Where existing buildings are to be redeveloped, for example if an existing building were to be demolished, the resultant new building should not increase the overall

Images, from left to right: • This open space in The Street must be protected from development • Trafﬁ c calming in hook Road and The Street would be welcome

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 29 Recommendation: are affected by the Direction should be carried out, when resources allow. • Acting in partnership, the District Council and Hampshire County Council could • The Article 4 Direction should be re-launched prepare a Traffi c Management Plan for across the conservation area. North Warnborough, including improved pedestrian crossings and perhaps a speed 9.3.2 The control of unlisted buildings limit of 20 mph in The Street, although implementation would be subject to the As part of the appraisal process, and as necessary funding becoming available. recommended by English Heritage and in PPG 15, unlisted but “positive” buildings have been 9.3 Article 4 Direction and the control identifi ed and are marked on the Townscape of unlisted buildings Appraisal map for Odiham. Generally, these are individual or groups of buildings which retain all 9.3.1 Article 4 Direction or a high proportion of their original architectural detailing and which add interest and vitality to The existing Article 4 Direction was served in the appearance of the conservation area. Most 1988 and covers all unlisted family houses. The of them date to the 19th century, but some may types of work which are controlled are set out in be early 20th century. Where they have been Appendix 2 but briefl y, alterations to a dwelling, too heavily altered, and restoration is not easily such as new windows and front doors, porches, achievable, they are excluded. front boundaries and painting are all controlled because planning permission is needed.

These additional controls appear to be working reasonably well but there are examples of poor quality detailing and the loss of front gardens and boundaries to create access for vehicles. At the very least, the District Council needs to relaunch the Article 4 Direction, possibly in association with new guidance and a full photographic survey to enable enforcement.

As with listed buildings, there is a general presumption in favour of their retention. Any application for the demolition of a positive building will therefore need to be accompanied by a reasoned justiﬁ cation as to why the building cannot be retained, similar to that required for a listed building. The owner must also have made positive efforts to market the building, or to ﬁ nd a suitable new use, before an application can be determined. Some ‘positive’ buildings may be eligible for local listing. Recommendations: Recommendations: • The existing Article 4 Direction should be reviewed and consideration given to • The District Council will consider applications providing further detailed guidance. A full for change to ‘positive’ buildings extremely photographic survey of the properties which carefully and will refuse any which adversely affect their architectural or historic

Images, from left to right: • This unlisted building in The Street (Clandlers Cottage) is currently protected by the Article 4 Direction • Webbs Cottages, Mill Lane, are unlisted ‘positive’ buildings

30 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals interest; the rooﬂ ine and are widely visible across the conservation area. Other trees, such as those • Applications to demolish ‘positive’ buildings which feature on North Warnborough Green, will generally be refused. or in the ﬁ elds towards Odiham Castle, are extremely visible and make an extremely 9.4 Front boundary treatments important contribution to the special character of the conservation area. These trees therefore There are some examples of poor quality front need to be particularly well protected, but no boundaries, particularly in The Street. These survey of the trees has ever been carried out should have been prevented by the Article 4 and there is no record of particular species or Direction (see 9.3.1) . their condition.

Recommendations: Because of the number of trees, and the diffi culty of obtaining access onto private land, • The District Council should encourage the a full tree survey was not carried out at the use of traditional materials, design and time of the appraisal survey and the Townscape details for all boundaries, but particularly Appraisal map therefore does not include details those which face the highway; of signifi cant trees. Local groups such as the Odiham Biodiversity Group for example take • The District Council should reinforce the over this task, and prepare a Tree Management rural qualities of the conservation area by Plan for the conservation area which could encouraging the use of traditional details for walls and fences; include the identifi cation of species as well as individual trees which may need tree surgery. • The District Council should take enforcement Recommendations for additional TPOs and action where property owners have not further tree planting could also be made, as complied with the Article 4 Direction. there are sites in the conservation area where tree planting would mask negative features. 9.5 Trees and landscape Recommendations: Trees are very important in the North Warnborough Conservation Area but there is • Prepare a Tree Management Plan for the currently no overall strategy to ensure their North Warnborough Conservation Area as preservation. Some are already specifi cally detailed above; protected by Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs), although the coverage of this protection is • The District Council will continue to enforce the relevant policies to ensure that the somewhat haphazard. Many of the important very special landscape qualities of the trees are in private ownership, and though the North Warnborough Conservation Area, as gardens can only be glimpsed over high walls described in this Appraisal, are protected or other planting, the trees stand out above from unsympathetic change.

Images, from left to right: • Front boundaries in The Street • Trees outside Castle Mill House

North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 31 9.6 Overhead wires and telegraph • Add the Methodist Church and neighbouring poles well detailed late 19th century houses on Bridge Road. Overhead telephone wires and telegraph poles tend to be dominant in parts of the conservation area, and it would be greatly advantageous if at some stage they could be removed and positioned underground.

Recommendation:

• Funding permitting, underground the overhead wires and telegraph poles in the conservation area.

9.7 Conservation area boundary review

As part of the appraisal process, the conservation area boundary was reviewed. It was considered that two amendments should be made as follows:

• Add Walnut Tree Cottage in The Street, a listed building, and its garden;

Images, from top left to bottom right: • Undergrounding these wires in Mill Corner would be advantageous • Add Walnut Tree Cottage • Add the Methodist Church, Bridge Road • Add the 19th Century houses in Bridge Road

32 North Warnborough Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals 10. Monitoring And Review

As recommended by English Heritage, this document should be reviewed every ﬁ ve years from the date of its formal adoption by Hart District Council. It will need to be assessed in the light of the emerging Local Development Framework and government policy generally. A review should include the following:

• A survey of the conservation area including a full photographic survey to aid possible enforcement action;

• An assessment of whether the various recommendations detailed in this document have been acted upon, and how successful this has been;

• The identiﬁ cation of any new issues which need to be addressed, requiring further actions or enhancements;

• The production of a short report detailing the ﬁ ndings of the survey and any necessary action;

• Publicity and advertising.

It is possible that this review could be carried out by the local community under the guidance of a heritage consultant or the District Council. This would enable the local community to become more involved with the process and would raise public consciousness of the issues, including the problems associated with enforcement.

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Appendix 2 Article 4 Directions

An Article 4 Direction was served in January 1988 in the North Warnborough Conservation Area. This removed certain “Permitted Development” rights and brought under planning control various alterations which would otherwise by allowed automatically. The types of development which are therefore now controlled are as follows:

• A – The enlargement, improvement or other alteration of the frontage of a dwelling or building, including works affecting a frontage roof slope;

• B – The erection, construction, alteration or demolition of a porch on the frontage of a dwelling;

• C –The erection, alteration or removal of any gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure to the frontage of a dwelling;

• D – The exterior painting of any part of the frontage of a dwelling or building within the curtilage of a dwelling;

• E – The erection, alteration or removal of a chimney on a dwelling or building within the curtilage of a dwelling.

A copy of the Article 4 Direction can be viewed at the Planning Department, Hart District Council, Fleet.

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Appendix 3 Bibliography

The Parish of Odiham , Sheila Millard

Hart District Council 2002, Hart District Local Plan (Replacement) 1996 - 2006

Department of the Environment – Planning policy guidance: Planning and the historic environment (PPG15) – 1994

English Heritage – Guidance on conservation area appraisal – 2006

Department of the Environment – The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act – 1990

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Appendix 4 Contact Details

For further information, please contact the following:

Hart District Council, Civic Ofﬁ ces, Harlington Way, Fleet, Hampshire GU51 4AE

Tel: 01252 622122

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