Cublington Conservation Area
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Cublington Conservation Area CUBLINGTON CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991 Cublington is situated in rolling countryside within the Quainton-Wing Hills Area of Attractive Landscape, two miles west of Wing. The village occupies a typical rural ridge-top location, at the crossroads between the Whitchurch to Wing road and the Stewkley to Aston Abbotts road. Po nd Po nd Rockwell Po nd 137.4m Po nd RE A DS LA NE Po nd Po nd Neales Farm Cr e sl ow Po nd Lodge Pippbrook Te n n i s The Old Courts Stables Cricket Field Old Manor Lakeside Farm Po nd The Pavil ion Granary Pavil ion Issues The Olde Manor The Cottages Po nd STEW KLEY ROAD Cublington Laneside Po nd ME ADOW SILVER ST RE ET CHENEY CL CHENEY Po nd Crossroads Po nd GP Sh elter 138.1m CLO SE 136.2m BM 138.75m 138.6m SILVER ST RE ET Orchard Ground Farm CHENEY The CL CL Po sts Ba r n Orchard Ground Cott age 137.0m Cot sw old Treeways Old Manor Home fi e l d Edgefield Larkspur Cot ta ge WING RO AD Chapel Path Old Pond House House The Church Path House The Old Mead HIGH S TRE ET Yew Tr ee ST NICHOLASCot t Cublingt on Cot ta ge House Chapel Cot ta ge The Old BM 134.40m Post St Nicholas Ma llo w 133.8m Church Office Cot t Ridings Cottage LB Be ll Cot t 137.2m Po nd Pump TCB Ma ple C ott age Cot ts 135.7m RIDINGS WAY Pu mp BE LL CL OSE The U nico rn Dairy Farm Po nd The (PH) Old House HIGH S TRE ET St Nich olas Cot ta ge Manor The Old Farm Post Office BM 137.94m Southend Farm GP AS TON Denchfield Cot tage Little 137.9m The Barns Ac r e Fern AB B OTTS RO AD Old House The Old Rectory Track Forge Me ad ow Ba r n Po nd View RO SES CL Po nd Walnut s WHITCHURCH ROAD 133.7m 137.8m Not to a recognised scale © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Aylesbury135.9m Vale District Council. Licence No 100019797 The village comprises two quite distinct parts. The major part centres upon the High Street, between the crossroads at one end and Old House Farmhouse and Old Rectory at the other. Extending to the south from the High Street are Whitchurch Road, Bell Close and Aston Abbotts Road, to N EY CL EY the north Stewkley SILVER STREET Orchard Ground Farm Road and Silver CHENEYCL CL Posts Orchard Ground Cottage Street and at Chapel Path The Church Path The Old Mead HIGH STREET either end Ridings ST NICHOLASCott Cottage Chapel The Old St Nicholas Post Office Way and Wing Ridings Cottage Church LB Bell Cott 137.2m Road. To the Pump TCB M Cotts north east of the RIDINGS WAY Pump BELL CLOSE Dairy Farm Pond The Unicorn The (PH) Old House main part of the HIGH STREET St Nicholas Cottage Manor The Old village is Reads Farm Post Office BM 137.94m Lane, which GP Denchfield Cottage swings round in Little 137.9m The Barns Acre Fe rn an arc between the Old House The Old Rectory Forge Barn Pond Stewkley and ROSES CL Wing roads. Pond Not to a recognised scale © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved.WHITCHURCH ROAD Aylesbury Vale District Council. Licence No 100019797 2008 1 Cublington Conservation Area Pond READS LANE Pond Pond Neales Farm Creslow Pond Lodge Pippbrook The Old Stables Old Manor Farm Pond The Granary The Olde Manor The Cottages Pond STEWKLEY ROAD STEWKLEY Cublington Laneside Pond Pond Crossroads Pond GP Shelter 138.1m 136.2m BM 138.75m 138.6m The Barn 137.0m Cotswold Treeways Edgefield Old Manor Homefield WING ROAD Larkspur Cottage Old Pond House House Ye w T ree House House Cublington Cottage BM 134.40m ow 133.8m tt e Pond 135.7m Southend Farm ASTON Not to a recognised scale ABBOTTS ROA © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Track Aylesbury Vale District Council. Meadow View Licence No 100019797 2008 D With the exception of Neale’s Farm and a modern house on the northern side of Reads Lane, all the properties are sited on its southern side and this affords those properties with fine panoramic views to both north and south, although particularly the north, between many mature and semi-mature trees. The impressive Olde Manor has been converted into two large houses but it was originally used as a stable block to a former Manor House. Only some of the brick boundary walls which surrounded the Manor House exist today. Farther east along Reads Lane are two seventeenth Century brick dwellinghouses, Old Manor Farmhouse and Neale’s Farmhouse. From Neale’s Farmhouse, Reads Lane swings abruptly south between high hedgerows before culminating at its junction with Wing Road. All four entrance roads into the village are bordered by extensive hedgerows which tend to limit views out across the surrounding fields. Within the village the most notable views are afforded south-east from Whitchurch Road in the direction of Weedon, north from Ridings Way, Church Path and the western end of Silver Street across the adjacent fields and south from Aston Abbotts Road, immediately opposite the walled grounds to the magnificent Grade II listed Southend Farmhouse. As with a number of other large properties in the village, it’s privacy, setting and charm is enhanced by its brick boundary walls and extensively landscaped grounds. 2 Cublington Conservation Area The small village pond and adjacent grass verges around the crossroads provide an attractive setting to the core of the village. This is further enhanced by the tall hedgerow enclosure which surrounds the area and the gable end elevations to Yew Tree House and a weatherboarded barn at The Nursery. Modern housing development has taken place immediately west of the crossroads in Silver Street, Meadow Close, Cheney Close and Bell Close but this has not, on the whole, detracted from the pleasant charm and appearance of the High Street. The older properties in High Street have, for the most part, been sited close to and abutting the roadside. The enclosure thereby provided is maintained by the brick walling fronting The Old Rectory and the Grade II* Listed fifteenth Century rubblestone Church of St. Nicholas. A small pathway known as Church Path extends north off the High Street along the eastern boundary wall to the Churchyard and up to Silver Street. Between Orchard Ground Farm and The Cottage, the pathway returns south to High Street, past Cublington’s tiny Methodist Church. Enclosure in Whitchurch Road and Ridings Way tends to be in the form of hedgerow and trees. The walnut tree on the north side of Ridings Way, opposite the Grade II Listed Manor Farmhouse is particularly prominent. At the far western end of Ridings Way, down the hill past Ridings are the earthwork remains of a former Mediaeval village and castle. This site has been identified by the County Museum as being archaeologically significant. February 2008 3.