Beachampton Conservation Area
BEACHAMPTON CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991
The linear settlement of Beachampton is situated
Tank in pleasant rolling countryside just south of the The G abl es
69.6 m
St Mary’s Church River Great Ouse and the County border with 70.3 m
MAIN STREET BM 76.34m Issues
Beachampton Place THORNTON ROAD Northamptonshire, midway between Po n
Beachampton Place
Swimming Po ol Hope Cottage
Pat h ( u m )
The Retreat Brae Path (um) Brae Lod ge Buckingham and Milton Keynes. Lod ge Dair y
Cottage FB
85.9 m
MAIN STREET
Teal House Fi eld Co ttage BM 69.81m
El mcro f t Ha l l Path (um)
Path (um)
68.6 m
Home Far m The Bel l
(P H) LB
The village comprises two quite distinct TCB
Beachampton Br i a r Ba nk
Happyl ands Cot t a ge Ki lne The Bi rch es Holmstall
Mirus House Windcroft Wh it e The
Willows Hou se elements. The larger part of the village extends Rectory Co ttages Wa te r s i de
Ho us e Br ooks ide
69.2 m 69.5 m
69.9 m Wel lonh ead The Ba r n
Pinecrest Red House Farm WATERY LANE
along the Main Street, whilst a smaller detached Path (um) Po nd ELME R S
Not to a recognised scale Allotment CLO S E Gard ens © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. element is located at the southern end of Watery Aylesbury Vale District Council. Lane, immediately adjacent a ford in the brook Licence No 100019797
Tan k
The Gables
69.6m
St Mary’s Church
70.3m
MA IN STREET BM 76.34m
Beachampton Place THORNTON ROAD
Beachampton Place
Swimming Pool Hope Cottage Path (um)
The Retreat Brae Path (um) Brae Lodge Lodge Dairy
Cottage FB
MA IN STREET
BM 69.81m Teal House
Elmcroft Hall Path (um)
Path (um)
68.6m
Home Farm The Bell
(PH) LB
TCB
Beachampton Briar Bank
Happylands Cottage Kilne Holmstall The Birches
Mirus House Windcroft White The
Willows House Rectory Cottages Wate rs id e
House Br ook si de
69.5m
69.9m Wellonhead The Barn Pinecrest Red House Farm The Old Latin
School
69.7m Ford ELMERS
Allotment CLOSE FB 73.0m Gardens
BM 71.08m Grange Not to a recognised scale Farm © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved.
Aylesbury ValeWa ter District Council. Licence NoTreatment 100019797 2008 Works
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which runs the entire length of Watery Lane and Main Street. This brook rises in the hills of Whaddon Chase to the south of the village and eventually empties into the River Great Ouse, just north of the isolated and listed farmhouse Hall Farm.
The smaller southern outlier to the village in Watery Lane contains the two seventeenth Century properties Grange Farm and The Old Latin School. The farmhouse, which is dated 1629, was built for William Elmer and has a whitewashed rubblestone ground floor and timber framed and whitewashed brick infill first storey. Directly opposite the farmhouse is The Old Latin School which William Elmer founded in 1668. It is a two and a half storey property of coursed rubblestone with a splendid central clock turret with leaded ogee cap roof.
On the southern side of the Watery Lane junction with Main Street is the fine two storey and red brick Red House Farmhouse. Particularly fine views are afforded of this building across the small Green, on the northern side of this junction.
The historical connection of the village with William Elmer is maintained today with the naming of the modern housing development at the southern end of the village, Elmer’s Close.
The village’s rural character and charm is enhanced by the brook running along the eastern side of Main Street and the extensive tree planting along its banks, particularly in the vicinity of The Willows, The Birches, Home Farm, and The Bell P.H. On the opposite side of the road, are the two attractive stone terraces 5A – 9 and 10-12 Main Street, the detached thatched cottage Elmcroft, No.14, 15 and Dairy Cottage.
Enclosure onto the roadside is maintained by the stone walling which extends north from number 10 almost uninterrupted along Main Street around Beachampton Place and up to the elevated grounds of St. Mary’s Church. The grounds to both the Grade II* Listed Church and Beachampton Place are extensively treed, as also is the stretch of Main Street between Hope Cottage and Teal House.
The coursed rubblestone Church of St. Mary was originally constructed in the fourteenth Century. It was much restored by G.E. Street in 1873/4. It is notable chiefly for the magnificent three stage west tower with shingled spire above which rises far above anything else in the vicinity.
Immediately east of the churchyard is the driveway to the sixteenth Century and coursed rubblestone Hall Farmhouse. The driveway is flanked on either side by a pair of Grade II Listed gate piers.
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