Drayton Beauchamp Conservation Area
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Drayton Beauchamp Conservation Area DRAYTON BEAUCHAMP CONSERVATION AREA Designated 19th July 1989 The small hamlet of Drayton Beauchamp lies five miles east south east of Aylesbury and one and a half miles west of Tring, within gently undulating farmland. 106.9m D ef The Dower House m Path (u Path (um) Sunningdale Farm Drain The CD Cottage Morgans The Dray House Old Manor Farm Lower Farm Old Manor BM 108.14m Farm Barn Cheyne House Pond Beauchamp Cottages Long Walnut Tree Ba r n Barn Tra ck Beauchamp Barn Drayton Cottage Water SunnySide Setherwood Cottage The Barn Pear Tree Applewood 108.3m Cottages Kimego Drayton Treasures Beauchamp Badge rs End Drain Pond Drain Upper Farm Sluice Pond Drain Silos Path (um) BM 112.33m 111.1m v Lay-by The Bungalow TCB LB The S chool Hous e 116.5m The Moat House A 4 1 A 41 The Moat House The Old Rectory Drayton Bridge Bridge FB Tra ck 123.7m 1.22m RH Orchard Croft 119.5m Foot Bridge 118.8m BM 120.46m Path St Mary’s Church Not to a recognised scale 1.22m RH © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. 121.4m Aylesbury Vale District Council. A 41 Licence No 100019797 2008 Wendover Arm (disused) 1 Drayton Beauchamp Conservation Area Comprising two quite distinct halves and with no recognisable centre, the northern half comprises a short ribbon of farms and houses straggling either side of the narrow lane which threads north west to the south east through the settlement. The southern half, comprises a scattering of seven isolated farms, houses and the Parish Church of St. Mary. These buildings are situated in and around two large open areas where boundaries are defined by substantial trees, hedgerows, post and rail fencing and a number of old fish ponds and a moat. Fine landscape views are afforded into these paddocks from both the main road through the village and the tiny lane leading to the Moat House and the two Listed Buildings, The Old Rectory, and St Mary’s Church. The entrance lane into Drayton Beauchamp, either from Buckland, to the north west or Tring, to the south east, is characterised by substantial field hedgerow and varying widths of roadside verge. The entrance from the north west, provides townscape views of the Listed properties, The Cottage and Morgans. Substantial enclosure is provided in the form of brick walls, high hedgerow and groups of mature trees. These trees within the vicinity of Lower Farm are particularly fine, as are those fronting and within the grounds of Badgers End. Some modern detached properties have been erected within the centre of this ribbon but the use of sympathetic landscaping and the continuation of the frontage hedging means they do not detract from the character nor appearance of the older neighbouring properties. Beyond Badgers End and Pear Tree Cottages the road swings south and then south east and at this point is an obvious change in the character of the village, as the ribbon of development gives way to open pasture and the occasional farm. Particularly prominent is the timber framed Upper Farm, which occupies a roadside plot directly opposite the larger of the two open fields around which the School House, The Old Rectory and The Moat House are situated. October 2008 2.