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Townley Memorial Hall, Home End The Manse, No. 3 Pierce Lane 9.4 Starting at the eastern end of Pierce Lane, at 9.0 THE BOUNDARIES TO THE the existing boundary, the next building on the CONSERVATION AREA southern side of Pierce Lane is The Manse, built 9.1 The Conservation Area takes in most of the for the resident minister of the Congregational historic core of the village as it was on the 1902 Church in Home End. Though the double fronted Second Edition of the Ordnance Survey map, symmetrical brick façade and semicircular as well as the detached Fulbourn Hospital Site. overdoor light invoke the style of a mid-19th The part of the village that is shown on the 1902 century house, the real date is 1896, as the map but that lies outside the conservation area moulded cast-stone window lintels and the large 2 boundary is the middle section of Pierce Lane x 2 sash panes testify. – the eastern end already being part of the village centre conservation area and the western end being part of the conservation area surrounding the waterworks. 9.2 It is recommended that the conservation area boundaries be revised so as to bring in the whole of Pierce Lane, which will have the effect of uniting the village centre and the waterworks conservation areas, and of bringing within this unified and enlarged conservation ear a part of the village that is integral to the historical development of the village and that has some architecturally and historically important buildings. No.13 Pierce Lane 9.3 Pierce Lane is named in documents dating from 1500 as a back lane leading from the village to Frog End and providing access to Poor’s Well (the waterworks site, and then the main source of water for the population of Fulbourn). It was linked to Cow Lane (earlier known as Fen Street, Nether Street and Low Street) by various footpaths, one of which survives (Town Close). It is possible that another footpath or lane – now gone but linking Pierce Lane via Ship’s Yard to Cow Lane and the Fen Drove Way – accounts for the distinctive bend that forms the southeastern boundary of No.13 Pierce Lane outhouses the waterworks conservation area. By the mid- 19th century there were some fifty houses along 9.5 Modern houses fill the southern side of Pierce Pierce Lane, unlike Cow Lane, which remained Lane up to No. 13, Pear Tree Cottage, a genuine undeveloped. mid-19th century painted brick double fronted 38 farmhouse with 4 x 4 sashes and a high boundary thatched roof of longstraw and ridge stack of grey wall surrounding an intact set of stables, lofts gault brick. Its neighbour, No. 23, is also a listed and outbuildings. No. 15, The Lodge, is a large Grade II listed house, this time of gault brick of late Victorian gault brick house with neo-Gothic around 1840, with slate roof and end stacks, double touches and intact stable block whose once fronted with 4 x 4 sash windows and original extensive garden has been developed for housing. panelled door with two small glazed upper panels and flat door hood.

No.15 Pierce Lane No.23 Pierce Lane 9.7 No 35 (Croft House), also Grade II listed, is a three-bay mid to late 17th-century cottage, rendered and timber framed under a thatched roof of combed wheatreed, with a gault brick ridge stack with three shafts set diagonally. It stands on the bend that gives this end of Pierce Lane its sinuous and attractive character. At the rear of No. 41 set well back from the road is a former Baptist Chapel and burial ground. According to the Victoria County History (page 157) this was built here in 1855 by a break-away group of Calvinistic Particular Baptists (locally known as ‘strict Baptists’)but was sold in 1970, and is now a dwelling. Only the unusually tall No.15 Pierce Lane outhouses ground floor windows, and the date plaque (saying ‘City of Refuge 1855’) betray its original purpose.

No.21 Pierce Lane 9.6 No. 21 (Inglenook) is a Grade II listed 18th- century cottage of one storey plus attic with one No.35 Pierce Lane gable dormer, rendered and timber-frame with 39 9.9 On the northern side of the road, the houses at the western end are mostly modern, except for No. 48, which is a Grade-II listed early-19th century house of yellow brick with tiled roof and saw-tooth eaves cornice. Between Nos 38 and 40 is a footpath leading to Town Close, a short row of mid-19th century gault brick and slate cottages. The southern-most cottage – No.1 – has its original side sliding sashes under flat-arched gauged brick window lintels. Further in towards the centre of Fulbourn, Nos 14, 16 and 18 are all good gault brick and slate properties with good boundary walls, though regrettably, in the case of No. 14, with No.43 Pierce Lane replacement windows and a prominently sited solar roof panel. 9.8 Beyond the chapel most of the properties date from the mid 19th century and are of gault brick under slate roofs, some (Nos 45 to 49) with side walls of fieldstones. With the exception of No. 51, all have had their windows and doors replaced. Nos. 63 and 65 are the last properties along this side of Pierce Lane not yet within the conservation area: they are a pair of Grade-II listed thatched and timber framed 18th-century cottages with side sliding sashes.

No.1 Town Close

No.45 to 49 Pierce Lane

No.14 Pierce Lane 9.10 One further change to the boundary is proposed at the western end of the waterworks conservation area to take in the mid-19th century Bakers Arms pub and the Grade-II listed timber- framed cottage at No 29 Cherry Hinton Road No.63 and 65 Pierce Lane opposite. 40 No.4 Home End Bakers Arms Public House, on junction of Teversham Road and Cherry Hinton Road 10.2 There is much evidence of development pressure within the conservation area, judging by the number of recent planning applications for conversions and extensions and for the development of new housing. New building can enhance the conservation area: a good example of a plot where redevelopment has the potential to improve the conservation area is at No. 4 Home End, a large plot currently occupied by a mix of modern office buildings and concrete and asbestos roofed warehouses. The commercial use of this site is particularly detrimental to the setting of the handsome timber-framed hall house at No. 2 Home End and to the setting of the approach to Manor Walk, creating a conflict between utilitarian modern buildings and the visual appeal of the No.29 Fulbourn Old Drift (Cherry Hinton Road) approach to the manor, park, church and war memorial in the finest part of the village. 10.0 ENHANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES 10.1 The buildings of Fulbourn’s conservation area are well maintained, and there are no buildings that could be described as being at risk through neglect, though several buildings within the conservation area appear to be unused and therefore need to be monitored to ensure that they do not deteriorate – notably the listed maltings along Ludlow Lane and the coach house and stable block to Fulbourn Manor. Outhouses and back buildings are always vulnerable to change or neglect (a listed barn has already been lost, for example, at Golden Gables, on Sanders Lane) and although there is no sign of No.4 Home End imminent threat in Fulbourn, it is worth noting that Equally development along School Lane could there are good examples of stables, coach houses enhance what is currently an untidy former and hay and apple lofts at No. 18 Apthorpe Street, farmyard. In both cases, new buildings need to No 29 Apthorpe Street, at Fulbourn Manor, No. 2 be designed that reinforce and enhance the Ludlow Lane, at Hall Farm in School Lane, and at conservation area and in particular are landscaped Nos 13 and 15 Pierce Lane. Good examples of the in such a way as to retain the green and rural feel sympathetic conversion of traditional outbuildings of both sites. are located at Nos 6 and 8 Balsham Road. 41 design, or when handsome houses, such as No. 18 Apthorpe Street, No. 24 Home End or No. 14 Pierce Street) have their traditional windows and doors replaced by modern alternatives. 10.5 Where single family dwellings are concerned, such alterations (along with changes to doors, windows and boundary walls can normally be carried out without planning permission from the Council. Development of this kind is called ‘Permitted Development’ and falls into various classes which are listed in the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995. Powers exist for the Council, known The traffic problem in School Lane as Article 4(2) directions, to withdraw some of these permitted development rights in the 10.3 Traffic is a serious problem in the conservation interest of preserving and enhancing the character area with the regular transit of very large lorries and appearance of the conservation area by and container vehicles past vulnerable sites, such as encouraging owners to retain original features the school. The exclusion of heavy traffic through and protect these features from inappropriate weight limits would be a major enhancement. alteration. 10.6 Within the conservation area there are a number of possible candidates for Article 4 (2) Directions, where properties have retained significant original features. These are:

No. 7 Balsham Road

No.18 Apthorpe Street 10.4 A number of houses within the conservation area have had their original doors and windows replaced with PVC alternatives. This is particularly evident when the original uniformity of a row of cottages (such as Chafy’s Row, Nos 4 to 14 Apthorpe Street, or Hope Terrace, Nos 17 to 23 Home End) has been destroyed by the introduction of inappropriate doors and windows of varying No. 9 Home End 42 where encouragement might be given to a return to thatch. Some roofs have prominent roof lights or solar panels that detract from the appearance of the building: their eventual removal would enhance the conservation area, especially in the case of the listed coach houses and stables at Fulbourn Manor, which form an important part of the churchyard setting and at No. 14 Pierce Lane.

No.15 Pierce Lane

No.41 Church Lane

No. 14 Pierce Lane 10.7 Where it is too late to prevent the loss of original features, owners should be encouraged to consider replacements in the future of more sympathetic materials, especially where one dwelling within a pair or row has been altered unsympathetically, and restoration would enhance the whole row. Nos.2 and 6 Cow Lane

Nos.13 to 19 (brick terrace and No.21 (pantiled) Church Lane 10.8 Some houses in the conservation area that would have had thatched roofs now have roofs of The churchyard looking east to the stables and clay pantiles (for example, No. 21 Church Lane, coach houses of Fulbourn Manor No. 41 Church Lane and Nos 2 to 6 Cow Lane 43 10.10 Fulbourn’s shopfronts are mainly modern and most are modest and unexceptional, though the early terrace of cottages at Nos 3 to 7 High Street, built of fieldstone, are scarcely recognisable as such and would be greatly enhanced by a rationalisation of the current pizza parlour signage and more sympathetic treatment of the ground floor doors and windows.

The stables and coach houses of Fulbourn Manor

The mature beech tree that marks the junctions of Balsham Road and Impetts Lane 10.11 Large and mature trees and groups of trees make a major contribution to the character of the conservation area. Consideration should be No.14 Pierce Lane given to registering all the mature trees in the conservation area (privately and publicly owned) 10.9 Subject to the availability of funding, the and protecting them through tree preservation District Council may make discretionary grants orders. The Council might also consider the available towards the repair of certain historic preparation of a tree management programme, buildings and structures within the district. with a regular system of tree inspection and These grants are made to encourage the use of maintenance. In particular the mature beech tree traditional materials and craft techniques and are that marks the junction of Balsham Road and generally targeted at listed buildings, though visually Impett’s Lane along with those fronting No. 24 prominent non-listed buildings within Conservation Home End, the lime and horse chestnut trees Areas may also be eligible for grant aid. More of Manor Walk, the lime trees on the northern specific advice on the availability of grants, as boundary of the churchyard in Church Lane well as on appropriate materials and detailing, is are all important in the visual character of the available from the Conservation Section within conservation area, and the Fulbourn Hospital Site the Planning Services Directorate at the District also has numerous individual trees and groups and Council. avenues that are core to the park-like character of this part of the conservation area.

Boundary wall, beech tree and traditional street sign at the Nos.3 to 7 High Street junction of Impett’s Lane and Balsham Road 44 The junction of Home End, Balsham Road and Dogget Lane Nos. 14A and 14 Blasham Road

Limes, chestnuts and timber fencing along Manor Walk Nos.2 and 4 Pierce Street

Car sales site at No.16 High Street Lime Trees on the northern boundary of the churchyard in Church Lane 10.12 There are some plots within the conservation area where the current use has a negative impact on the conservation area and where encouragement might be given to the owners to improve the appearance of their property – for example at Nos 14 / 14a Balsham Road at the rear of Nos 2 and 4 Pierce Street, at the gap site used as a car sales area at No. 16 High Street, at No. 2 Teversham Road (the Cambridge Waterworks Co Gate Lodge),where various sheds and building materials detract from the appearance of this important corner site with its historic railings and at the Horse Pond on Cow Lane, No. 2 Teversham Road, where regular maintenance is necessary to prevent Cambridge Waterworks Co Gate Lodge the pond from becoming clogged with leaf fall. 45 The Horse Pond, Cow Lane 10.13 Pond and water courses were once a feature of the Poorwell Water site and the area around the waterworks on Cow Lane but these are all dry as a result of drought and water extraction, leading to a loss of bio-diversity, though the pond in the north west corner continues to thrive. Consideration might be given to improve the bio-diversity of the Manor Walk, wall forming western boundary of Fulbourn area. Manor 10.16 The Maltings in Ludlow Lane forms a visually striking and unusual group of buildings, is a rare survival of its type and an asset to the village and deserves more detailed study. It might also benefit from a conservation plan and positive management regime, including public access.

11.0 POLICIES TO PRESERVE THE CHARACTER OF THE AREA 11.1 These policies should be read in conjunction with those in the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (adopted February 2004). A summary list of the relevant policies is provided in Appendix A, but it is Cow Lane, looking east advisable to consult the Local Plan itself. 10.14 The recreation ground and paddocks in the 11.2 Fulbourn has been identified as a Rural rectangle bounded by Stonebridge Lane, Home End Growth Settlement, but opportunities for new and Impett’s Lane are an important village amenity, dwellings within the boundaries of the existing and and although they lie outside the conservation area, proposed conservation area will be very limited they have an important impact upon it, bringing (and possibly restricted to the replacement of green open space into the heart of the village and existing dwellings or sites that are marked on as such it is important that they remain green and the appraisal map as being of neutral or negative open areas. architectural interest). 10.15 The attractive historic street lamps found 11.3 In relation to the Fulbourn Hospital part of throughout the main conservation area and the the conservation area, Council policy is to maintain Pierce Lane extension and waterworks site would the separation between Fulbourn and Cherry all enhance the area further if they were cleaned Hinton, of which the extensive hospital grounds and given a fresh coat of paint. form an important and sensitive part, retain the main hospital building, which is a fine example of a Victorian asylum, and to retain the open parkland 46 character to the south of that building, which forms or in pale pastel shades, while brickwork should an important contrast to the intensively farmed generally be gault clay, though some limited use fields that surround the hospital site. Change of of red brick may be appropriate. Modern artificial use or conversion of existing buildings must be materials (including concrete roof tiles and uPVC compatible with Green Belt policy. Replacement windows) should not be used. buildings will be considered where they enhance the site through the removal of structures or 11.8 Boundaries: these are very important to the buildings that detract from the appearance of the character of the proposed Conservation Area. site. Positive boundaries identified on the map within this appraisal should be retained. Where new 11.3 In considering the design of new or boundaries are proposed, care should be taken replacement buildings, or extensions to existing to ensure they use appropriate materials (such as ones, the Council will take into account the impact coped brick walls or timber picket fences). Overly of proposals on the setting of listed buildings and formal or ornate gates and walls are not to be the character and appearance of the conservation considered. Planted boundaries, including those to area. Section 8 of this document sets out some the sides and rear where they abut lanes or the of the key characteristics which need to be wider countryside, will need to be appropriately considered if a design is to fit comfortably with treated so that existing vegetation of merit is its neighbours. The following points summarise retained and augmented as necessary with new considerations that are important in determining native trees and hedges. Sufficient space must be whether a new development is acceptable. allowed within site layouts to enable this planting to be implemented in the short term and retained 11.4 Scale: buildings should be 1½ to 2 storeys in over the longer term. Close-boarded fences to height. Roofs should be modestly pitched (ie 30 open countryside will be resisted unless they can to 35 degrees) in slate or clay pan-tile, or more be adequately screened with appropriate planting. steeply pitched in plain-tile or thatch. Rooflights should only be located on less visible slopes and 11.9 Street signs – the District Council will hipped or cat slide dormers are to be preferred encourage the Highway Authority and statutory in mansard or steeply pitched roofs (eyebrow in undertakers to reduce the visual clutter and impact thatch). of plant, road signs and other street furniture. Where signs are needed, their size should be 11.5 Location on the plot: new buildings should kept to the minimum allowable and, wherever respect established building lines and extensions possible, they should be fixed to existing features should adhere to the principles of subordination, rather than being individually pole-mounted. so that they do not undermine the architectural Reflective yellow backgrounds to traffic signs are interest of the main building, while also seeking to not appropriate in or adjacent to Conservation preserve existing trees and hedgerows. Areas and should be avoided. Where required, 11.7 Materials and colours: Fulbourn’s limited pallet traffic calming measures should be specifically of materials and colours is set out in Section 8 designed to complement the village and its setting, of this document. This pallet should be used as a avoiding the introduction of alien urban features guide for new development. In addition, stained or standardised, inappropriate gateways. Well- weatherboard timber cladding may be considered designed street furniture in suitable colours will be appropriate for lesser structures, such as garages. encouraged, while necessary, but unattractive plant, Rendered walls should be painted either white should be appropriately screened.

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