Teffont Village Design Statement
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TEFFONT Village Design Statement 4. Introduction 6. Life in Teont Today 8. Layout & Character 10. Guidelines for Development • Design and materials • Design Guidelines for New Building • Garages and Outbuildings • Extensions, Alterations and Conservatories 18. Tour of the Village 30. Landscape & Geology 32. History 34 Biodiversity 38. Appendices • Maps • Supplementary texts • Denitions • Websites • Acknowledgements Page 2 Teont Village Design Statement Introduction n 2007 the residents of Teont serve as an important rst reference point for all began the process of preparing a those involved in Teont’s future development. Village Design Statement (VDS). What is at stake? e comprehensive document As the Tour of the Village so clearly illustrates, which follows is the result of two Teont is an exceptional village and amongst questionnaires, several public the features making it so unusual are: consultations and a huge amount of work by teams of volunteers ◊ e extraordinary number (49) and all motivated by the desire to see that new proportion of listed buildings and features development in the village respects the unique within a parish of little more than 100 Icharacter and charm of Teont. individual dwellings. Because this VDS is so comprehensive, the ◊ e presence within the village boundaries Parish Council decided that for ease of access of Sites of Special Scientic Interest (SSSI) the Development Guidelines should be at the and other very special landscape features beginning of the document. However, we urge such as its stream and water meadows. those responsible for making or inuencing ◊ e way in which the village’s linear planning decisions to read the whole document development is marked by open spaces. as this will ensure the Guidelines are placed in context. ◊ e position of Teont within the South Why is the VDS important? West Wiltshire and Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). On its adoption as Supplementary Planning is VDS highlights the geology, history and Guidance by Wiltshire Council the VDS biodiversity of Teont, all of which underpin becomes a “material consideration in the the architectural heritage of this beautiful determination of a planning application”. Wiltshire stone village. We believe that taken as is means that the contents will be taken into a whole the document will serve to recognise account by the Council when determining the past, value the present, but above all be a planning applications however it should also guide to protect the future of Teont. Page 4 Teont Village Design Statement Top left to right: Teont Village Hall , St Edward’s church, Teont Magna Teont Village Show tug-of-war Below: Teont Wildlife Group Jubilee street party Village Show’s organiser Lighting the tree ceremony Village Hall social event Bottom: Main arena Village Show Life in Teont today eont is a small village in the Nadder varied village activities including local grants to maintain buildings in Teont. businesses, including a farm attraction, TValley whose thriving community clubs, entertainers, lms, children’s and e beneciaries are the two churches, a livery yard, a market garden and a currently includes over two hundred family parties, committee and business the Reading Room and the Village Hall. publishing company, which produces a adults and more than y children. meetings and quiz evenings. With the local newspaper. Every summer the Teont Village Show ere are residents who have lived in closure of the last public house in the is held in the grounds surrounding Teont is home for a large number of the village all their lives as well as many village in the late 1990s the Village Hall’s Teont Manor. Traditional attractions thriving businesses including a hotel welcome newcomers. It is surrounded and role has become vital to the social life of include ower and produce classes, and restaurant, a livery stable, an energy intersected by footpaths and bridleways the village. arena events for children and adults consultancy, a digital marketing agency, which are well used by walkers and riders, e two historic churches in the village and an evening party. e popular show a professional photographer as well as travelling across the elds and woodlands both hold regular clergy and lay-led attracts many village residents and is an traditional service companies such as or alongside the stream. Horse riding is services and are supported by an active important annual community event. joiners, electricians and landscaping. a major form of recreation and there are Parochial Church Council. currently over 40 horses kept in the village As working patterns have changed, not e provision of such a range of housing One of the ways Teont residents support only are there a number of homeworkers has ensured that the demographic prole e Village Hall provides a meeting point their village is through the Teont Trust, in the village but also many thriving of the village is constantly evolving. for all villagers. It is a home for many and which was set up in 2007 and provides Page 6 Teont Village Design Statement Layout & Character ere are still many of the larger dening open C M ings have a wider use of ashlar, or cut that provided good insulation at the O S spaces in the upper part of Magna and in Evias, stone, at intervals through their walls, time, is now thick rounded wheat e Tour of the Village illustrates how many but few remain in central Magna. Fragments of earlier timber-framed for their front walls or “public” face, straw known as wheat reed. In the open spaces there are in Teont and how sig- cottages still exist, but the predomi- Several dwellings have been built on the hill- quoins or corner stones, and around early 1900s several buildings had the nicantly they contribute to its unique charac- nant vernacular style of building sides, but generally the development is only in doors and windows. Simple carv- thatch replaced with handmade clay ter. roughout the village these spaces aord throughout Magna and Evias is the oor of the valley, leaving uninterrupted ing was added for mullions and drip peg tiles; many were probably made the separation between buildings which is such characterful, modest, steeply pitched views to the countryside beyond. ere is moulds over the windows and for the with the local clay at the nearby brick, a fundamental part of Teont’s identuty. ey thatched stone cottages, one room dense vegetation in many places and this over- decorative kneelers which terminate tile and pottery works in Dinton, provide an essential contribution to the way in deep and single-storey with attic. all “greenness” still prevails over the buildings. the eaves. which was established earlier that which the buildings largely intermingle har- e small rectangular windows are century. Welsh slate became more moniously with the natural valley landscape. Almost all dwellings face the road and have randomly placed. ey were built in Victorian buildings, mainly in Evias easily available, via rail, in the mid small gardens at the front with larger gardens the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and described in the Tour, although Listed below are some of the views that villag- 1800s, hence its appearance in the behind or to the side and elds beyond. Many probably by farm workers, during a not in the vernacular of the village, ers wish to see maintained. later Victorian buildings. ere are bridges span the stream, mostly enlarged to ac- boom in the wool trade, using the have settled comfortably into their a few Somerset pantiled roofs. More ◊ Views of the lake, manor and church in commodate o-street parking. rubble or crudely hammered “Chil- surroundings partly because they modern machine-made clay, com- Evias mark” stone carried from the elds have been constructed in the local ere is a scattering of late 20th-century position and concrete tiles have also and open quarries in the village. is stone and natural materials. Con- ◊ Unspoilt views from the approach roads buildings on the B3089 approaches to Magna, been used. is a glauconitic, sandy limestone – versely, reconstituted or “articial” into and across the village mostly single dwellings with generous space glauconite being the mineral which stone, used for dwellings built in the Other traditional “features” of the and vegetation around them. ◊ Views of wooded areas on approach roads gives it the characteristic greenish- latter part of the 20th century, has buildings are referred to in detail in Until recently–and this was due to a quirk in grey or brownish colour. is stone not weathered or become part of the the “Building & Design Guidance and ◊ Views of countryside between and beyond the planning system (see New Building sec- is referred to as the “local stone” or landscape in the same way. materials” section. buildings tion–reference “… close adjacent to “Barn- “Chilmark stone” throughout the ere is one red brick house and a Most traditional buildings have been mead”)–there has been little backlling, or document. (see Appendix for more P L few of the traditional buildings have extended and modernised. diversion from the linear pattern except for details about the “local stone”) e settlement developed in a linear pattern, small amounts of brick inll. ere agricultural purposes. is quality has been with buildings arranged in irregular clusters e coursed rubble-built walls, with are only a few small examples of int upheld by planning inspectors and there is a on either side of the road and following the squared quoins or corner stones, are inclusions in walls. Above: Magna from the west strong wish amongst villagers for it to remain Below: Evias from the east ow of the stream, and many of the cottages o en two feet thick, and many dwell- that way.