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Adopted Blisworth Blisworth CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN Adopted September 2015 Blisworth is a place of special character and historic interest. This appraisal and management plan sets out the features that contribute to its distinctiveness and identifies opportunities for its preservation and enhancement. 1 Contents Summary 3 Public realm 20 Summary of special interest 3 Open space, hedges and trees 21 Key characteristics 3 Scale and massing 22 Summary of issues & 4 Views 22 opportunities The conservation area boundary 5 Architectural Analysis 24 Building age, type and style 24 Introduction and Planning 6 Materials 25 Policy Context Roofscape 26 What is a conservation area? 6 Windows 26 Planning policy context 6 Doors, porches and access 27 What does conservation area 7 status mean? Positive buildings 28 Location, Topography and 8 Boundary Justification 29 Geology Background 29 Location 8 Northern boundary 29 Topography and geology 9 Eastern boundary 29 Southern boundary 29 History and Development 11 Western boundary 30 Background 11 Prehistoric and Roman 11 Management Plan 31 Early Medieval and Medieval 11 Policy Context 31 16th and 17th centuries 12 Threats 31 18th and 19th centuries 13 Management proposals 32 20th century onwards 15 Archaeological 16 Sources of Further Information 35 Sources 35 Spatial Analysis 17 Internet sources 35 Land use 17 Further information 35 Settlement pattern 17 Copyright 36 Street pattern, means of 17 Community involvement and 36 enclosure and footpaths adoption 2 Summary Summary of special interest Key characteristics Archaeological finds from across the village of Stone is the dominant building material within Blisworth and the wider parish indicate activity Blisworth Conservation Area. There are a as early as prehistoric and Roman times. The number of distinctive properties that use first written record of the settlement is in the limestone and ironstone banding, including No 3 Domesday Book when it is referred to as High Street, which Pevsner notes ‘as the best Blidesworthe, a medium sized settlement under example in the district’ in its enthusiastic use of the ownership of William Peverel. local materials. The oldest building in the village is the Church Many of the dwellings are 17th and 18th century of St John the Baptist. The current building in origin with later alterations. Smaller domestic displays a variety of building phases from the terraced cottages tend to be 11/2 -2 storeys in 13th, 14th and 15th centuries with subsequent height and run parallel to the highway creating a alterations in the 20th century. strong sense of enclosure. Larger farmhouses are found dispersed throughout the settlement The location of the early manor house is subject and tend to sit gable end onto the road creating to debate. Past and current OS maps locate it to self-contained complexes. the north of the church on the site of a former Tudor-esque building whilst earlier records Larger properties are located to the west of the denote it as being on the site of the current village, in the oldest part of Blisworth. These sit Blisworth House. back within their plots removed from the immediate highway and separated from the From the 17th-20th centuries large tracts of land main village with the use of boundary walls. and property were owned by the Dukes of Grafton who were influential in the village’s Strong boundary lines are a feature of the development and evolution. conservation area created either by the built Initially employment would have been form that runs in close proximity to the highway or limestone and ironstone walls that continue associated with agriculture and farming, which this linear alignment. This gives homogeneity is still evident in the built form today. However, and continuity to the streetscape. this changed dramatically during the Industrial Revolution with the improved transport Open space at the road junctions and to the infrastructure of the Grand Union Canal and west of the village provide relief from the strong railway offering greater opportunities in primary sense of enclosure provided by the built form. and trade industries. Towards the periphery the use of open green There are 24 listed structures within Blisworth spaces and vegetation contributes to a more rural feel and helps place the village in its Conservation Area, denoting them of special agricultural context. architectural and historic interest. There is also the stepped base of a free-standing medieval cross located in the churchyard and designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. 3 Summary Summary of issues and opportunities The conservation area boundary Change is inevitable in all conservation areas Blisworth Conservation Area was originally and it is not the intention of designation to designated in 1991 and reviewed again in 1998 prevent the continued evolution of a village. The and then in 2015. The final appraisal and challenge with conservation areas is to manage amended boundary were adopted on 23rd change in a way that preserves, reinforces and September 2015. enhances the special quality of the area. The views of residents of the village are The preservation and enhancement of the important and all comments should be directed special character of the conservation area will to: owe much to its positive management. In Planning Policy and Heritage Team addition to the existing national legislation and local planning controls the following South Northamptonshire Council opportunities for enhancement have been The Forum identified: Moat Lane Establish a list of locally significant buildings and policies for their protection. Towcester Encourage the preservation and NN12 6AD enhancement of surviving historic detail Email: [email protected] and the reinstatement of appropriately Telephone: 01327 322265 designed detailed fittings in buildings considered to be of significance to the character area and appearance of the conservation area. The use of Article 4 Directions, which remove the permitted development rights of dwelling houses, will help to achieve this. Some of the buildings in Blisworth have received Article 4 Directions including: Nos 8, 10, 12 and 14 Stoke Road Nos 13, 15, 17 and 19 Courteenhall Road Ensure that all new development is sustainable, high quality, well designed and responds to its context in terms of urban and architectural design. Promote the sympathetic management of open spaces within the conservation area including verges, and work with the highways’ authorities to avoid the insertion of inappropriate kerbing and footpaths which would have a harmful urbanising effect. 4 Summary Figure 1: The boundary for Blisworth Conservation Area © Bluesky World international Ltd 5 1. Introduction and Planning Policy Context 1.1 What is a conservation area? Management Plan provides the basis for making informed, sustainable decisions in the positive Conservation areas were introduced under the management, protection and enhancement of Civic Amenities Act of 1967. That Act required the conservation area. Local Planning Authorities to identify areas, as opposed to individual buildings, of special This appraisal provides a clear understanding of architectural or historic interest and to designate the special interest of Blisworth by assessing them as conservation areas. how the settlement has developed, analysing its present day character and identifying Since 1967 some 9,800 conservation areas opportunities for enhancement. have been designated, including 60 in the South Northamptonshire District to date. Blisworth The appraisal is not intended to be Conservation Area was designated in 1991, comprehensive and the omission of any reviewed in 1998 and recently reviewed in particular building, feature or space should not March 2015. be taken to imply that it is not of interest. This appraisal should be read in conjunction with the wider national and local planning policy 1.2 Planning policy context and guidance including the National Planning The Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Policy Framework (NPPF) under which a Areas) Act 1990 is the Act of Parliament which conservation area is deemed to be a heritage today provides legislation for the protection of asset. the nation’s heritage of buildings and places of The South Northamptonshire Local Plan was architectural and historic interest. adopted in 1997 and saved in part in September Section 69 of the 1990 Act defines a 2007. It designates Blisworth as a Restricted conservation area as: Infill Village with Policy H5 of the plan restricting development within such villages to the infilling “...an area of architectural or historic interest the of a small gap in an otherwise built frontage; or character and appearance of which it is a small group of dwellings; or the conversion of desirable to preserve and enhance.” an existing building. The 1990 Act also places a duty on Local The West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy Planning Authorities to consider revisions of the 2014 sets out the long-term vision and boundaries of their conservation areas from objectives for the whole of South “time to time”. It is now considered appropriate Northamptonshire to 2029, including strategic to review Blisworth Conservation Area in order policies for steering and shaping development. to further define its key characteristics. Policy BN5 of that strategy relates to the historic This document is an appraisal of Blisworth environment and states that: Conservation Area and is based on a standard format derived from the advice contained
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