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Your Place Matters, a Guide to Understanding Buildings and Their Your Place Matters: A Guide to Understanding Buildings and their Setting in Rural Worcestershire Authorship and Copyright This guidance has been written by Emily Hathaway of Worcestershire County Council Archive and Archaeology Service and Jeremy Lake of Historic England. Copy editing and graphic design This toolkit has been copy edited and designed by Sarah Austin MSc. Acknowledgements Many thanks to the following individuals and organisations for their constructive comments and suggestions in support of this publication: Lara Bishop, Steve Bloomfield, Pete Boland, Clifton upon Teme Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group, Jack Hanson, Leigh and Bransford Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group, Cody Levine, Adam Mindykowski, Aisling Nash, Maggi Noke, Tom Rogers and Dennis Williams. Thanks also goes to Damian Grady from Historic England’s Aerial Reconnaissance, for his beautiful aerial photographs which capture the diverse character of the county’s settlements and landscapes. Cover image A linear settlement with traditional farmsteads and houses set intermittingly along a possible droveway, leading from upland pastures on the Malvern Hills to lowland common. Buildings face, and are set slightly back from the road, in their own individual plots. The surrounding landscape is mixed with small to medium scale irregular fields with sinuous, often mature, hedged boundaries. Photograph © Historic England NMR 29435_002. Section 1 Introducing the Guidance Overview ...................................................................................................... 1 Rural buildings in contex ............................................................................. 3 Section 2 Local landscapes A history of landscape ................................................................................ 6 Fields .............................................................................................................. 9 Unenclosed common, heathland and wetland ....................................... 14 Allotments ..................................................................................................... 17 Landed estates and designed landscapes............................................... 19 Woodland and wood pasture .................................................................... 22 Traditional orchards ..................................................................................... 25 Routeways and waterways ........................................................................ 28 Section 3 Rural settlement Rural settlement patterns in Worcestershire .............................................. 32 Section 4 Rural buildings Rural buildings and their settings ................................................................ 43 Rural building types and their settings ....................................................... 44 Dating domestic buildings .......................................................................... 58 Patterns of building pre 1750 ...................................................................... 60 Patterns of building 1751 - 1850 .................................................................. 64 Patterns of building 1851 - 1918 .................................................................. 67 Patterns of building 1919 - 1945 .................................................................. 70 Patterns of building 1946 - present ............................................................. 74 Building materials ......................................................................................... 77 Section 5 Resources Glossary of terms ......................................................................................... 83 Bibliography ................................................................................................. 86 1 Section 1 Introducing the Guidance Overview ‘Your Place Matters: A Guide to of past change, and the opportunities Understanding Buildings and their that this offers for the future. It is Setting in Rural Worcestershire’ has therefore designed to help you step been designed by Worcestershire back and see your area in its broader Archive and Archaeology Service, in context and provide you with a better collaboration with Historic England. understanding of: This Guidance complements and supports the Community Planning • The different landscape features that toolkit ‘Your Place Matters: Community make up the whole environment, Planning Toolkit for the Future of Rural from open spaces to fields and Buildings and their Setting.’ woodland; taking account of both the natural and historic This fully-illustrated Guidance is aimed environments, and the benefits at community planning groups and they bring to wildlife and people. the professional advisors who support them, and can also be used by those • How different patterns of settlement undertaking research into different areas relate to different landscape types. of the historic environment. It responds to a need identified in workshops and • What makes your area distinctive national research (Locus Consulting, through consideration of the whole 2014), for guidance which helps people landscape and not simply features to understand their area as the result that are officially designated. 2 Buildings in rural Worcestershire will be Using the Guidance and Toolkit considered under the following broad documents headings: The detailed information found within this Guidance document provides Local landscapes the support that is needed to carry How do buildings relate to surrounding out the Excercises in Section 2 of fields, settlement, routeways, waterways, ‘Your Place Matters: Community woodland, unenclosed land, orchard, Planning Toolkit for the Future of parkland and allotments? Rural Buildings and their Setting.’ Rural settlement These two documents are designed How do buildings relate to each other to work together through linking and their immediate setting? relevant information that can be (For example, the form, layout and accessed via hyperlinked tabs in the location of settlement). Toolkit, to pages within this Guidance. Building types and their settings What broad types of building are in the parish? (For example, domestic, work related, community focussed). Building date What is the broad date of domestic buildings in the parish? How do patterns of settlement reflect development over time? Building materials What are the dominant building materials? Are materials local to the area or have they been transported in from further afield? 3 Rural buildings in context We all recognise places through their The NPPF also stresses the importance of: unique combination of characteristic features and sites, some of which • Retaining and enhancing local may be designated for their heritage character and distinctiveness, or wildlife significance. From local through identifying and assessing patterns of settlement and building the forms of settlement, buildings types, to field boundaries and woodland, and other features found locally these all provide benefits and opportunities for people and wildlife. • Conserving heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their Buildings form an integral part of significance and putting them to these local landscapes and the viable uses consistent with their whole historic environment, defined in conservation. Heritage assets The National Planning Policy Framework include listed buildings and other (NPPF) as resulting from, ‘the interaction places or buildings, which are between people and places through considered to have national or time’ (2012, 52). In relation to changes local heritage interest. The more and new development within the important the heritage asset, the historic environment, the NPPF places greater the weight that should good design, local character and be given to its conservation and conservation at the heart of sustainable the impact of any development development and good planning. on its setting. The NPPF states that the options for • Achieving sustainable development change should take into account whereby economic, social and ‘the desirability of new development environmental gains are all delivered making a positive contribution to through the planning system. local character and distinctiveness and opportunities to draw on the contribution made by the historic environment to the character of place’ (2012, 30). 4 Historic England (formerly English strengthen the recognition, assessment Heritage) has also developed and protection of those buildings, Constructive Conservation as the monuments and areas considered to overall term for its positive and be most special. collaborative approach to conservation that focuses on actively managing Trouble understanding the terminology? change. The aims of this approach The roles of different organisations, are to recognise and reinforce the and the language used by heritage historic significance of places, while professionals, is often specialised. accommodating the changes A Glossary in Section 5 of this Guidance necessary to ensure their continued provides definitions of terms which may use and enjoyment. The recent Farrell be newly introduced or unknown to you. Review of Architecture and the Built Environment (also called ‘Our Future in Place’) has also concluded that protection of the heritage that we most value, should not be at odds with making the ordinary better, through seeing, ‘the potential of what is already there, the value of place, identity and sustainability’ (2015, 108). ‘Your Place
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