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 108.14mFarm 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

Lay-by

The Bungalow TCB

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

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