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Heading Great Haseley Conservation Area Character Appraisal Main Heading Great Haseley Conservation Area Character Appraisal The conservation area character appraisal - this sets the context for the proposals contained in Part 2. Part 1 was adopted by Council in September and is included for information only. May 2005 Great Haseley Conservation Area Character Appraisal The Council first published the Great Haseley Conservation Area Character Appraisal in draft form in July 2004. Following a period of public consultation, th including a public meeting held on 4 August 2004, the Council approved the nd Character Appraisal on 2 September 2004. Part 1 Introduction 2. The Established Character 1 Thomas Delafield, Notitia Haseleiana or Some Great Hasely is commodiously and This is an assessment of the existing memorials of the pleasantly situated on an easy character, including the topography of Antiquities of the Parish of ride, extending from east to west the area, the vernacular style, Hasely in the County of about ---- furlongs. And to predominant building materials and Oxfordshire, Bodleian passengers that come to it from natural or man-made features of local Library, Gough MSS Oxon the east, south and south west, interest. 19,183, c. 1735-9, Bk 1, affords a handsome Prospect. It p.47 hath a good Air and a pretty 3. Possible Areas for cleanly scite, being founded on a Enhancement 2 The 1990 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation natural rock and is (in short) an This includes areas with potential for Areas) Act places a duty Healthful and agreeable place of development and improvement and 1 on every local planning Habitation. advice on extensions and repairs to authority to determine Thomas Delafield, a historian writing in existing buildings. which parts of their area the 1730s about the history of Great are areas of special Haseley, recognised the physical 4. Design guidance for new architectural or historic assets of the village and describes with development interest, the character or some sense of pride, the special appearance of which it is characteristics of the village, many of 5. Existing Conservation Policies desirable to preserve or which are still discernible today. This These are extracts from the 1997 enhance. The Act also character appraisal of the Great Adopted South Oxfordshire Local Plan states that the local Haseley Conservation Area seeks to and the 2011 Second Deposit Draft planning authority should, identify exactly what it is today that South Oxfordshire Local Plan from time to time, formulate gives Great Haseley its special identifying policies relating to listed and publish proposals for character and looks at how this can buildings and Conservation Areas. the preservation and be preserved and enhanced in the enhancement of these future. 2 6. Plan of the Conservation Area conservation areas. The appraisal also includes a review of This is a scale plan of the area, which the boundaries of the conservation aims to identify the elements, which area and possible extensions are contribute to the character. The plan identified. Any extension to the includes the Conservation Area conservation area will be subject to a boundary, listed buildings (buildings separate consultation exercise. identified by the Department of Culture, The document is divided into various Media and Sport as being of special sections as follows: architectural or historic interest), former Grade III listed buildings (a now 1. The History of the Area obsolete category but where the buildings may still be of architectural or This covers the period from prehistory historic interest) and other buildings of to the present day. It includes local note. This latter group consists of significant architectural history, buildings that play a part in establishing important dates and references to the character of the street scene but people and events that have helped to have not yet been considered to be of shape the area we see today. sufficient importance to meet the current criteria for listing. Government guidance contained in PPG.15- GREAT HASELEY CONSERVATION AREA CHARACTER APPRAISAL 1 South Oxfordshire District Council Planning and the Historic Environment indicates, however, that there is a presumption against the demolition of such buildings. Important trees are also identified. These are usually highly visible from public places and/or they contribute to the setting of a listed building. Important open spaces are identified, as these are a vital element in the character of an area. Character is defined not just by buildings, walls and trees, but also by the spaces between them. These contribute to the setting of buildings. They allow views around the area and they are often an important element in the historical development of a settlement. Important unlisted walls are identified. These are usually built of local materials and help to define spaces and frame views. Lastly, important views into, out of and around the Conservation Area are identified. It should be appreciated that a Conservation Area's character does not end with a line drawn on a map. Often the character is closely associated with attractive views out to surrounding countryside, sometimes via gaps between buildings. Views within an area such as that to a church or particularly attractive group of buildings are also important. 2 HENLEY CONSERVATION AREA CHARACTER STUDY South Oxfordshire District Council March 2004 1. Great Haseley - the History of the Area The character and history of an area are closely linked to its archaeological remains. The archaeological constraint plan identifies the location of ancient monuments, earthworks and known crop marks, find spots, archaeological sites and linear works identified on the Sites and Monuments Record maintained by Oxfordshire County Council. There is little published on the history Map 1 Gascoyne's map of 1701 woods stretched from the main London of Great Haseley and this brief account - Oxford road to beyond Standhill and is not intended to fill the gap. Using 3 Delafield, op.cit., bks 1-3 there appears to be no mention of a some of the general information on the 4 road to the village until after the Bodleian ref. (E) C17:49 area, drawing on some of the Norman Conquest, though there is (58) unpublished information available and mention of one, past the Foundry 5 what can be gleaned from surviving website: through to Cuddesdon. As Roman buildings, a brief account is given here www.thehaseleys.com coins have been dug up in the of significant elements in the history of churchyard it is possible that there was the village. a settlement here very early and there Chief amongst the unpublished is evidence in a document now in the 3 sources is Delafield's history , three Bodleian Library that by 800 A.D. there manuscript volumes in the Bodleian was a church here, dedicated to St. Library, which give a history of the Peter, as it still is. Part of the font is village up to the early eighteenth also thought to be Saxon. By the time century. Delafield was born in c.1690 of Edward the Confessor this area, and wrote his history in the late 1730s known as Hazeley, belonged to Queen (volume 3 can be dated to 1739). Edith 5. Another valuable source of particular There are two references to Great (and relevance is an estate map of 1701, Little) Haseley in the Domesday Book. drawn by Gascoyne, which shows the The principal landowner was Miles buildings of the village and its Crispin, who was granted the land by surrounding fields (see map 1). 4 William the Conqueror and who held: Early history ..........16 hides (notionally the amount of land which would In common with most towns and support a household). [There is] villages, little is recorded pre-conquest land for 18 ploughs. Now in and there is no information on the demesne [are] 3 ploughs, and 5 county sites and monuments record to slaves; and 15 villans with 13 illuminate the early history of the bordars (the former were peasants village. of higher economic status than the The name is thought to derive from latter) have 15 ploughs. There are Hazel Ley - meaning a clearing in a 60 acres of meadow, [and] Hazel wood. For many centuries GREAT HASELEY CONSERVATION AREA CHARACTER APPRAISAL 3 South Oxfordshire District Council 6 Dr Ann Williams and woodland 2 furlongs long and 2 successive owners of the manor 9 Professor G.H. Martin eds., furlongs broad. TRE (Tempore though they would not necessarily Domesday Book; a Regis Edwardi - i.e. before the have lived in the village, as most had Complete Translation, Conquest in 1066) and afterwards, other large estates elsewhere. Many Alecto Historical Editions, as now, worth £15. 6 were major figures nationally, marrying London, 2003, p.437 into the royal family and other There is also a reference amongst the aristocratic families. Of these, the 7 ibid., p.427 land held by the Bishop of Bayeux to Pypards are of particular local interest Hervey holding land in Great and Little 8 County Archaeological as this family had probably lived in Haseley: Services Great Haseley since the Conquest and There are 9 hides. There is land 9 Delafield, op.cit., bk1 evidence of their occupation may still for 9 ploughs.. Now in demesne be seen on the ground. 10Delafield, op.cit., bk.1, [are] 2 ploughs, with 1 slave; and 8 The family was one of great antiquity p.126 villans with 3 bordars have 6 and of foreign extraction, having come ploughs. There are 30 acres of to England with William the Conqueror, meadow. It was worth £7; now £6 7 though they were apparently less Medieval distinguished than some other lords of the manor. They were, in fact, The Church and Churchyard of undertenants rather than owners of St.Peter's are of medieval origin and Great Haseley, though there are archaeological evidence probably of a records of the Pypard family owning medieval manor survives in the land in other parts of the county to fishponds, now filled in, in the eastern which they gave their name e.g.
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