Oving Conservation Area

OVING CONSERVATION AREA Designated 1st January 1972

The village of Oving occupies a hilltop site in the midst of the Quainton-Wing Hills Area of Attractive Landscape, one mile west of Whitchurch. The surrounding rolling countryside slopes gently down from the village and this provides fine panoramic views to the north, west and south towards North Marston, Quainton and Pitchcott.

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The village comprises two quite Cross Shelter Fai rvi e Glynn e

Rhoslan 16 0.9m H Lo ng vi ew

Che ster Pinnocks House Lam bo urn e distinct parts; the older historic nucleus Po st C o t ta ge S

Chester Cottage

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LB H of Oving centres upon Church Lane, Sp ri ng f i eld

Lynholme Gro ve 16 0.9m

El msc ot t Manor Road, Dark Lane and the area Me lb rea k

Spring Fo ur Acr es

Jor roc ks Ovin g of Green between these three roads, Methodist Church

Yew s Cottage In gl ew oo d Ca r Tennis Park known simply as The Village. The Courts Play Area

Sc ot s Hi l l F ar m

remainder of Oving stretches north- BOW LING ALLEY Holly Cottage

Recreation Grou Home C lose Pond The Reading Room easterly from Church Road past the Th e Barn Cumber land Cottage Pavilion Dahlia Cottage modern cul-de-sac developments of Th e Ol d

Sc ho ol Keep ers Co ttag e Th e Orc har ds

Is su e s Sa ng ro New Stone View and The Pightle along St e adi n gs Cottage Black THE P IG HT LE Boy (PH) All Saint’s Ley bu rn

Church Flavills Greenholme Gar fiel d Marlow HouseMarlow

Cott Applegarth Fre ela nd s Church Church

Bowling Alley towards Marston Hill Farm 16 3.1m Th e Woodlands 15 1.2m Church Barn BM 152.89m 15 6.1m Wi nd mi ll H ou se Ma gp ie C o t t ag e CHURC H LANE Arra ncot Th e 15 7.9m Pp and Whitchurch Road. Ol d Rec tory 16 2.2m Shelter

Recto ry Co ttage 16 3.4m LB STON E VIEW Th e GP Ivy Cottage The Laundry Flats Hillside Cottage TC B

Gar den s Ros endale LB Wenlock Cottage Ae rial Pump Windmill Bungalows Milton Cottage Th e

El S ub Sta Home fie ld Th e Ol d Dai ry Ma no r Hou se 15 4.2m Oving The Old The historic core is bounded by The But chers Th atch ed Sw al lo w s Arms Cottage El Sub Sta Home Farm

Ma no r Cotta ge ROAD Path (um) Th e Wal l Co ttage DARK LANE

Denham Cottage

Village and Manor Road on the west MA NOR 15 6.7m The Old Coach House Ti nke rs End Cottag e Oving House side, Church Road to the north and Derwent Cottage Ma no r Clo se

15 5.8m Pitchcott Road to the south. This area Path (um) contains the main concentration of 15 6.4m fDe

Path (um) Listed Buildings including the Grade Not to a recognised scaleBM 150.56m 15 6.7m GP

© CrownBM 147.81m Copyright. All rights reserved. 14 9.7m II* Listed Oving House and Church of Vale View Orc har d Co ttage PITCHCOAylesbury TT ROA D Vale District Council. Forge Cottage 1.22 m R H The Cottage All Saints. A number of listed buildings LicenceHilltop ViewNo 100019797 2008 in the area feature prominently in some of the village’s most splendid townscape views. Particularly noticeable are The Black Boy P.H., The Old Rectory, Woodlands, Magpie Cottage and The Thatched Cottage. The buildings combine an assortment of architectural styles at a variety of ground levels and surround a small well kept Green enclosed by grassy embankments and the stone boundary walls of Oving House. Together, these features succeed in creating a space of considerable vitality in both appearance and spirit.

Extending south from The Green along the short lane of Manor Road, past Manor House and the picture book thatched cottages of Tinkers End and Derwent Cottage, all of which are Listed Grade II, the lane opens out revealing extensive views westward across pastoral farmland and south across the Vale of Aylesbury.

Whilst the main historic nucleus of the village skirts around the treed grounds of Oving House, Dark Lane extends eastward off The Green past the Old Butchers Arms, exposing the stone entrance façade to Oving House, the gables of which can be seen over the surrounding walls, which in turn lead the eye to the elegant brick stable block and rubblestone Home Farmhouse.

1 Oving Conservation Area

The southern brick aspect of Oving House together with its treed grounds are an important feature in Oving maintaining a landscaped wedge between the village and the open countryside. Beyond Oving House, its stable block and Home Farmhouse, Dark Lane becomes a grassy tree lined footpath which eventually emerges opposite the pleasant stone bus shelter in front of Windmill Bungalows.

Cumberland Cottage

Dahlia Cottage

The Old

School Keepers Cottage

Issues New Steadings Cottage

Black THE PIGHTLE Boy (PH) All Saint’s Church Leyburn Flavills Greenholme Garfield Marlow Ho use

Cott Applegarth Freelands

Church Church

Farm 163.1m The Woodlands 151.2m Church Barn BM 152.89m 156.1m Windmill House Magpie Cottage CHURCH LANE Arrancot The 157.9m Pp Old Rectory 162.2m Shelter LB Rectory Cottage 163.4m Ivy Cottage The Laundry Flats The Hillside Cottage GP TCB

Gardens Rosendale LB Wenlock Cottage Aerial Pump Windmill Bungalows Milton Cottage The

El Sub Sta Homefield The Old Dairy Manor House 154.2m Oving The Old Butchers

Thatched Swallow s Arms Cottage El Sub Sta Home Farm

Manor Cottage ROAD Path (um) The Wall Cottage DARK LANE

Denham Cottage

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156.7m The Old Coach House Tinkers End Cottage Oving House Derwent Cottage

Manor Close

155.8m

Path (um)

Aylesbury ValeBM 147.81m District Council. 149.7m ValeLicence View No 100019797 2008

TROAD Orchard Cottage

C b C Pi House Lam Post

Chester Cottage

Wy ncr oft Extending north along Bowling Alley, opposite the

LB Recreation Ground, are a group of detached and Springfield

Lynholme Gro terraced stone cottages which provide an attractive 160.9m

El mscott link between the historic nucleus of the village and the Melbreak more modern area of Marston Hill. The attractive Four Acres

Jorrocks Oving quality of these properties is enhanced by the frontage Methodist Church boundary walls and hedgerows which provide Yews Cottage Inglewood Car Tennis enclosure to their pleasant treed gardens. Park Courts Play Are

Scots Hill Farm

BOWLING ALLEY Holly Cottage

Recreation Gro December 2008 Home Close The Reading Room

The Barn Cumberland Cottage Pavilion Dahlia Cottage Not to a recognised scale

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