Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm Poulshot Wiltshire Heritage Desk
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Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm Poulshot Wiltshire Heritage Desk-Based Assessment for Pegasus Planning Group On behalf of Hive Energy Ltd CA Project: 4375 CA Report: 13386 June 2013 Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm Poulshot Wiltshire Heritage Desk-Based Assessment CA Project: 4375 CA Report: 13386 prepared by Donal Lucey, Assistant Heritage Consultant date June 2013 checked by Richard Morton, Senior Heritage Consultant date June 2013 approved by Richard Morton, Senior Heritage Consultant signed date June 2013 issue 01 This report is confidential to the client. Cotswold Archaeology accepts no responsibility or liability to any third party to whom this report, or any part of it, is made known. Any such party relies upon this report entirely at their own risk. No part of this report may be reproduced by any means without permission. © Cotswold Archaeology Cirencester Milton Keynes Andover Building 11 Unit 4 Office 49 Kemble Enterprise Park Cromwell Business Centre Basepoint Business Centre Kemble, Cirencester Howard Way, Newport Pagnell Caxton Close, Andover Gloucestershire, GL7 6BQ MK16 9QS Hampshire, SP10 3FG t. 01285 771022 t. 01908 218320 t. 01264 326549 f. 01285 771033 e. [email protected] © Cotswold Archaeology Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire: Heritage Desk-Based Assessment CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 7 Outline ................................................................................................................ 7 Location and landscape context ......................................................................... 7 Scope ................................................................................................................. 7 2. METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................... 8 Assessment of heritage asset significance ......................................................... 12 3. PLANNING POLICY CONTEXT ......................................................................... 13 Planning policy and guidance context ................................................................ 13 National Planning Policy Framework .................................................................. 13 Local planning policy .......................................................................................... 15 4. BASELINE SURVEY .......................................................................................... 16 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 16 Designated heritage assets ................................................................................ 16 Summary of non-designated or potential heritage assets ................................... 17 Previous investigations ....................................................................................... 17 Geology, topography and the palaeoenvironment .............................................. 17 Geology and palaeoenvironment ........................................................................ 17 Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (500,000 – 4000 BC) ............................................... 18 Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age (4000 BC – AD 43) ..................................... 18 Roman (AD 43 – AD 410)................................................................................... 19 Early Medieval (AD 410 – 1066) and Medieval (1066 – 1529) ............................ 20 Post-medieval (1540 – 1800) ............................................................................. 21 Modern (1801 – 2000) ........................................................................................ 21 Undated ............................................................................................................. 23 5. SUMMARY OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE AND POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS ........................................................................................................... 23 Recorded heritage assets................................................................................... 23 Potential heritage assets .................................................................................... 24 Summary of development proposals .................................................................. 24 Assessment of potential impacts on heritage assets .......................................... 25 6. CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................. 37 3 © Cotswold Archaeology Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire: Heritage Desk-Based Assessment 7. REFERENCES ................................................................................................... 38 APPENDIX A: GAZETEER OF RECORDED HERITAGE ASSETS AND OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT .......................................................... 41 APPENDIX B: EXTRACT FROM THE HEDGEROWS REGULATIONS 1997 ................. 42 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fig. 1 Site location plan and location of assessed heritage assets Fig. 2 Recorded heritage assets Fig. 3 Extract from Andrews’ and Drury’s 1773 map of Wiltshire Fig. 4 Extract from 1837 map of Poulshot Parish Fig. 5 Extract from the 1886 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map Fig. 6 Extract from the 1900 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map Fig. 7 Plan of geophysical survey and trial trench evaluation at Lower Foxhanger’s Farm Fig. 8 1946 Aerial photograph showing ditched trackway in site Photo Fig. 1 View to site from High Street in Seend Conservation Area Photo Fig. 2 View to site from churchyard in Seend Conservation Area Photo Fig. 3 View to site from eastern boundary of Seend Conservation Area Photo Fig. 4 View to site from Grade II Listed Loiterton Farmhouse Photo Fig. 5 View to site from Grade II Listed Lower Foxhanger’s Farmhouse Photo Fig. 6 View from northern field of site to Caen Hill Locks Scheduled Monument Photo Fig. 7 View from northern field of site to Grade II Listed Poulshot Lodge Photo Fig. 8 View from northern field of site to Grade II Listed Barley Hill Farmhouse Photo Fig. 9 View to site from Barley Hill Lane in Poulshot Conservation Area Photo Fig. 10 View to site from northern boundary of Poulshot Conservation Area Photo Fig. 11 View to site from village green in Poulshot Conservation Area Photo Fig. 12 View to site from 75m south-east of Devizes Castle Scheduled Monument 4 © Cotswold Archaeology Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire: Heritage Desk-Based Assessment SUMMARY Project Name: Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm Location: Poulshot, Wiltshire NGR: ST 96391 60945 In June 2013 Cotswold Archaeology was commissioned by Pegasus Planning Group on behalf of Hive Energy Ltd. to carry out a Heritage Desk-Based Assessment of land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire. The desk-based assessment supports a planning application for a solar park within the site. Below-ground remains of a post-medieval or modern farmhouse and agricultural building may be present in the western part of the proposed development site. If any below-ground remains (i.e. foundations) are present they would be of very limited heritage value. Below- ground remains of former field boundaries and post-medieval trackways also may be present within the proposed development site; any such remains are not considered to be heritage assets. Below-ground remains of the furrows of destroyed medieval or post-medieval ridge and furrow earthworks are likely to be present throughout most of the proposed development site. Any below-ground remains of these furrows are not considered to be heritage assets. The baseline survey indicates generally limited evidence for prehistoric and Roman settlement in the wider site vicinity. Medieval settlement was located at nearby villages, and there is little potential for any settlement of that period within the site. Based on the evidence of this assessment it is unlikely that any currently unrecorded buried archaeological remains within the proposed development site would be of sufficient significance to warrant preservation in situ or to preclude development proposals. An assessment of potential non-physical effects of development upon the setting of designated heritage assets within up to 4km of the site has been carried out. The only designated heritage asset in close proximity to the proposed development site is Barley Hill Farmhouse, a Grade II Listed building. The settings assessment has found that development would alter a part of the setting of the house, which would result in a small degree of harm to its overall value. Consideration of the elements that contribute to the values of other designated heritage assets, including their settings, and the form of the proposed development has found no further potential adverse development effects. As such, development of the site for the use of solar panels (which have a very limited physical impact) would not be contrary to national or local planning guidance regarding 5 © Cotswold Archaeology Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire: Heritage Desk-Based Assessment archaeological remains, and would not lead to ‘substantial harm’ (as defined by NPPF section 12 Paragraphs 132-134) to any heritage assets. 6 © Cotswold Archaeology Land at Poulshot Lodge Farm, Poulshot, Wiltshire: Heritage Desk-Based Assessment 1. INTRODUCTION Outline 1.1 In June 2013 Cotswold Archaeology was commissioned by Pegasus Planning