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Sudbury Conservation Area Appraisal Sudbury Conservation Area Appraisal July 2006 SUDBURY CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL Page 1. Sudbury in Context 1 2. Archaeological Significance 2 3. Origins of Development 3 • Topography • Historical Development 4. Architectural and Historic Quality 6 • Building Materials • Building Elements • Key Buildings 5. Setting of the Conservation Area 21 6. Landscape Appraisal 23 • Planning Context • Landscape Character • Zones 1-4 7. Relationship of Structures & Spaces 30 • Main Road • Gibb Lane • School Lane 8. Negative Elements 38 9. Neutral Factors 40 10. Conservation Area Designation 41 11. Justification for Boundary 42 • Recommendations for Amendment 12. Conservation Policies 46 • National Planning Guidance • Regional Planning Guidance • Local Planning Guidance Appendix 1 - Listed Buildings Appendix 2 - Register of Parks & Gardens SUDBURY CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL List of Figures Fig 1. Sudbury in the Derbyshire Dales Fig 2. Sudbury Conservation Area Fig 3. Map 1659 Fig 4. Map 1794 Fig 5. Map 1823 Fig 6. Map 1843 Fig 7. Map 1880 Fig 8. Building Chronology Fig 9. Important Walls & Boundaries Fig. 10. Defined Setting of the Conservation Area Fig. 11. Landscape Planning Context Fig. 12. Landscape Appraisal Zones Fig. 13. Villagescape Indicators Fig. 14. Proposed Conservation Area Boundary • Plan 1. North boundary • Plan 2. East boundary • Plan 3. South boundary • Plan 4. West boundary Sudbury Conservation Area Appraisal 1. Sudbury in Context CONTEXT OF THE CONSERVATION centrally within the plan area and south of this AREA settlement are a number of small attractive villages and hamlets interspersed with attractive rural Derbyshire is a county of contrasts, in its countryside. Many of these villages and hamlets topography – the grandeur of the Peaks in the have historic or architectural merit and much of the north; rolling countryside to the east of the County area has fine landscape and wildlife habitat. to flatter, less eventful scenery further south. The region boasts stone cottages in the north and north- Sudbury Village is located in the far south of the west, brick houses in the south; agriculture in the Derbyshire Dales District (Fig.1), close to the south and pasture and bare moors in the north. boundary with the City of Derby. It also lies on the Industrial regions lie along the margins of the west side of the County and close to the border County whilst the central area of the County is with Staffordshire. There are two conservation areas generally the ‘tourist’ area, where travellers visit located this far to the south of the Derbyshire Dales Dovedale, Derwent Dale, Millers Dale, the Hope District, - Somersal Herbert and Sudbury. Valley, Matlock, Buxton and the High Peak. The village is approached from Ashbourne via the The dividing line between brick (and before brick A515 to the north. The A50 (Uttoxeter to Derby) became popular timber framing) and stone runs cuts a swathe through land to the north of the roughly west to east a few miles north of Derby. village, being a continuation of the Doveridge Apart from areas of Carboniferous and Magnesian bypass. limestone, the majority of the geology is sandstone - Carboniferous and Triassic (New Red). Most of the Sudbury Village is a relatively small and compact New Red sandstone is Keuper but there is a narrow village constructed predominantly in red brick with strip of Bunter sandstone around Derby and red tiled roofs. Its current population is in the Ashbourne. In the south of the County the Keuper region of 976 although this refers to 446 in Marl yields clays well suited to the manufacture of households and 530 in communal establishments bricks and tiles. (mostly related to Sudbury Prison). It has a thriving small community comprising of a village pub, with The small towns and villages in the centre of the an associated ‘green’ picnic/social area; a post County, away from the large towns have managed office/store; a primary school; a bowling club; a on the whole to escape ‘improvement’ and major butchers shop; an active Parish Council; a doctors development and as such remain almost completely surgery and of course Sudbury Hall which attracts unspoilt. This is partly due to the fact that many many visitors each year to both the principal villages, including Sudbury, have remained in Estate building, as well as the Museum of Childhood and ownership and as such major alterations to the attractive gardens and associated parkland. buildings and sites have been limited. The village was designated a Conservation Area in The County does not possess many ‘grand’ February 1969 (Fig.2) and many of the buildings are churches but does possess a wealth of grand houses listed buildings (Appendix 1). such as Haddon, Hardwick; Bolsover, Chatsworth, Kedleston and Sudbury. Derbyshire Dales covers an area of approximately 79,000 hectares (307 square miles). The area comprises some of the most diverse and scenically beautiful areas in Britain. The Peak District National Park covers over half the area of Derbyshire Dales. Derbyshire Dales District Council covers that part of the Derbyshire Dales that lies outside the National Park. It covers approximately 33,000 hectares (128 square miles) of land with a population of around 45,000. The District is mostly rural in character and comprises attractive countryside and hamlets. The largest settlements within the plan area are the more northerly towns of Matlock, Darley Dale, and Wirksworth. 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DerbyshireDerbyshireDerbyshire Dales DalesDales District DistrictDistrict Council. Council.Council. Licence LicenceLicence No. No.No. 100019785. 100019785.100019785. Sudbury Conservation Area Appraisal 2. Archaeological Significance ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AREA The Sites & Monuments Record for the village has The layout of the village itself has archaeological only four entries. These are the parish church, the significance. Sudbury is essentially an ‘estate’ village Hall, the grid reference for the discovery of a that has been, to a certain extent, planned and laid prehistoric stone axe and an area of park enclosure out. Research into the history of the development (believed to date from 1614). Apart from these the of the village may reveal that the construction of the village has other, significant elements of Hall resulted in the re-alignment of the old village archaeological interest. The Hall gardens have been street and the removal of some houses around the altered over time – images of the previous garden church. The landscape immediately surrounding the layouts clearly show many features that no longer village also has archaeological interest in that it exist above ground but whose deposits may still be preserves the historic, agricultural, usage and below the surface. The aerial photograph of the division of the land. These parcels of land are Hall (2000) displays some faint traces of features divided by ancient hedges and boundaries that have that are now below ground. Associated with the fossilised the medieval landscape around the village. Hall is the Park. Both Park and Garden are included on the Register of Parks & Gardens, complied by To the south of the village there is the River Dove. English Heritage, (grade II). The history of the park Maps indicate that some historic embanking work requires further research but its historic, and has been undertaken possibly associated with flood archaeological, boundaries still exist. control. P1. Aerial photograph of Sudbury (2000) 2 Sudbury Conservation