Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets
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Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets Report by: Trysor For: Heritage Leisure Developments (Wales) Limited Revised August 2019 Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets By Jenny Hall, MCIfA & Paul Sambrook, MCIfA Trysor Trysor Project No. 2018/675 HER Event PRN DAT 114826 For: Heritage Leisure Developments (Wales) Limited Revised August 2019 38, New Road Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Ammanford Carmarthenshire SA18 1UN www.trysor.net [email protected] Cover photograph: “The Platform”, the range of workshops, smithies etc to the north of the ironworks, looking northwest to Area A beyond the fence. Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets RHIF YR ADRODDIAD - REPORT NUMBER: Trysor 2018/675 HER EVENT PRN – DAT 114826 DYDDIAD 9ed Mehefin 2019 Fersiwn diwygied 31ain Gorffennaf and 8fed Awst 2019 DATE 9th June 2019 Revised July and August 2019 Paratowyd yr adroddiad hwn gan bartneriad Trysor. Mae wedi ei gael yn gywir ac yn derbyn ein sêl bendith. This report was prepared by the Trysor partners. It has been checked and received our approval. JENNY HALL MCIfA Jenny Hall PAUL SAMBROOK MCIfA Paul Sambrook Croesawn unrhyw sylwadau ar gynnwys neu strwythur yr adroddiad hwn. We welcome any comments on the content or structure of this report. 38, New Road, 82, Henfaes Road Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Tonna Ammanford Neath Carmarthenshire SA11 3EX SA18 1UN 01639 412708 01269 826397 www.trysor.net [email protected] Trysor is a Registered Organisation with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and both partners are Members of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, www.archaeologists.net Jenny Hall (BSc Joint Hons., Geology and Archaeology, MCIfA) had 12 years excavation experience, which included undertaking watching briefs prior to becoming the Sites and Monuments Record Manager for a Welsh Archaeological Trust for 10 years. She has been an independent archaeologist since 2004 undertaking a variety of work that includes upland survey, desk-based appraisals and assessments, and watching briefs. Paul Sambrook (BA Joint Hons., Archaeology and Welsh, MCIfA, PGCE) has extensive experience as a fieldworker in Wales. He was involved with Cadw’s pan-Wales Deserted Rural Settlements Project for 7 years. He has been an independent archaeologist since 2004 undertaking a variety of work including upland survey, desk-based appraisals and assessments, and watching briefs. Event Record PRN – DAT HER PRN 114826 Name Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside, Impact on Setting of Historic Assets Type SETTING ASSESSMENT NGR SN1396007495 Easting 213960 Northing 207495 Summary In 2019, Trysor provided an assessment of the impact on (English) the setting of designated assets within 500 metres of SN1396007495. This was undertaken in relation to a proposal to further develop the leisure offer at Heritage Park, Stepaside. © Trysor 2019 Summary Yn 2019, paratowyd asesiad gan Trysor ar effeithiau ar (Cymraeg) leoliad asedau statudol o fewn 500 metr i gyfeirnod grid SN1396007495. Gwnaed hyd mewn perthynas â datblygiad arfaethedig i wella atyniadau twristiaeth yn Heritage Park, Stepaside, Sir Benfro. © Trysor 2019 Description In 2019, Trysor provided an assessment of the impact on the setting of designated assets from a proposal to further develop the leisure offer at Heritage Park, Stepaside. The impact on designated historic assets within 500 metres of SN1396007495. © Trysor 2019 Sources Trysor, 2019, Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside, Impact on Setting of Historic Assets) Copyright @Trysor 2019 Project boundary – 500 metres radius from SN1396007495, see Figure 1 Contents Summary 1 1. Introduction 4 2. The Proposed Development Site 6 3. Heritage Park Development Site: Historical overview 7 4. Methodology 10 5. Impacts on Setting Stage 1 11 6. Impacts on Setting Stage 2 15 7. Impacts on Setting Stage 3 19 8. Impacts on Setting Stage 4 22 9. Conclusions 24 10. Bibliography 26 Appendix A: Setting Assessment PE418 - Kilgetty Ironworks Including Listed Buildings 6545 “The Platform” and 6543 Engine House 27 Appendix B: Impact Assessment PE418- Kilgetty Ironworks Including Listed Buildings 6545 “The Platform” and 6543 Engine House 32 Appendix C: Setting Assessment Listed Buildings 18861 & 18283 (Tramway Bridge) 41 Appendix D: Impact Assessment Listed Buildings 18861 & 18283 (Tramway Bridge) 46 Appendix E: Photographs 51 Appendix F: Client Plans 64 Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets Summary This report examines possible impacts on the setting of the statutorily protected historic assets within 500 metres of a central point in the proposed development site at Heritage Park, Pleasant Valley, Narberth, Pembrokeshire (SN1396007495), arising from the masterplan to expand and improve facilities. The proposed masterplan includes six discrete areas located within and around the scheduled Kilgetty Ironworks complex and the present Heritage Park lodge park. It assesses potential impacts on the settings and significance of the Kilgetty Ironworks (Scheduled Monument PE418). The ironworks has been protected in recognition of the quality of the surviving structures, which are a rare survival of a largely unaltered mid-19 th century ironworks complex. The complex includes two listed buildings at the heart of the ironworks complex which would potentially be affected by the development; The Platform (Listed Building 6545), the Engine House (Listed Building 6543). A third listed building, a former tramway bridge on a private branch off the Saundersfoot railway (Listed Building 18861 & 18283), lies just to the north of the proposed development. The potential impacts on the setting of these three buildings have also been examined for this report. Other Listed Buildings within the 500 metre radius were either not intervisible or screened from the development by extensive vegetation, other buildings or topography and their settings have been assessed to be unaffected. These include a number of structures within the scheduled area; the ironworks Casting House (Listed Building 6544), the furnace bank revetment wall (listed Building 18278), a bank of Lime Kilns (Listed Building 18277) and a Tramway Incline Structure (Listed Building 18282). The Kilgetty Ironworks was established as an industrial site in the mid 19 th century and was built utilising the flat valley floor and the valley slope to the west. It was linked to other industrial sites in the area by a series of tramways and railways. The site of the ironworks was chosen because the topography suited the requirement to build furnace the wall, lime kilns and coke ovens against a steep slope so that they could be loaded from above. Another important consideration in selecting this location was the availability of the required raw materials, coal, iron ore and limestone, which are available locally. A tramway link to Saundersfoot Harbour also provided a convenient route to export the product from the ironworks. Views from and towards the 1 Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets complex were not a material factor in the selection of the site or its development. The listed bridge was built to carry one of the tramways over the Ford Lake stream. The tramway bridge was built c.1846 when a tramway was constructed to serve the iron furnaces and limekilns at Kilgetty Ironworks. From 1856 this tramway also served Grove Colliery. It connected the ironworks and local collieries such as Grove, Lower Level and Kilgetty with the harbour at Saundersfoot. Of the six areas proposed for development, the developments in just two areas would cause an indirect impact on the scheduled monument and listed buildings. Area A borders the northern side of the scheduled area and it is proposed that 23 lodges would be constructed within this area. This would cause a Moderate negative impact on the setting of part of the scheduled monument, as it impacts on the northern edge of the scheduled area, adjacent to the former ironworks workshop known as The Platform (Listed building number 6545). Proposed mitigation already included in the masterplan for the development includes the reduction in the footprint of Area A, reduction in number of lodges from an already consented scheme, moving lodges away from the scheduled monument boundary and the creation of a screening hedge with trees which will close off views of the lodges when viewed from the scheduled area. These mitigations would reduce the level of impact on the setting of the northern part of the scheduled monument area and the listed building known as The Platform (6545) to a Low negative. Area B lies close to the listed Tramway Bridge at Stepaside (Listed Building 18861 & 18283). The proposed development would be of a much larger scale than the bridge, but local topography, tree cover and vegetation mean that any impact on this listed structure would Very Low and be caused by only a small part of the development at the northern edge of Area B. By way of mitigation, the view of Area B will be reduced by the maintenance of a screening hedge along the northern boundary of Area B, where it is close to the listed bridge, thereby reducing the impact to negligible. Area C also borders the scheduled area. The nature of the topography here, along with tree cover along the edge of the scheduled area at this point and mature trees along the northeastern edge of Area C , mean that there are no views from Area C into the scheduled area or vice versa. There would be no impact on the setting of the scheduled area from the proposed development in Area C. 2 Heritage Park Masterplan, Stepaside Impact on Setting of Historic Assets Areas D and E are on the northeastern side of the road in Stepaside and separated from the scheduled area and listed building by tree cover and are already developed areas. There would no impact on the scheduled areas and listed buildings. The addition of a new café/visitor centre/bicycle hire building and associated car park area proposed for Area F and lies within the scheduled area of the ironworks.