Great Brickhill Conservation Area

GREAT BRICKHILL CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991

The village of Great Brickhill occupies a prominent hilltop site in the Brickhills Area of Attractive Landscape. Its high position affords magnificent panoramic views out across surrounding countryside towards the Chilterns and across the Ouzel valley towards the Vale of Aylesbury.

GAL LEY

LANE North Middle Lodge Manor Hill Cottage

BM 118.63m

Path (um) Sawpit Lane Trac k

Manor Farm Lod gehill Cottages Trac k 157.0m

Path (um)

The Moors

Closefield

155.1m

131.0m

Pond Trac k

Path (um)

Church Farm

Trac k

GALLEY LANEGALLEY

Green End 137.1m Cottage

St Mary ’s Church 155.9m

Keepers Lodge 141.80m FA HOME Brickhill Manor

141.0mWar Meml

Wells Playing Field Cottage

Brambles

Sewage Disposal Lane End Church Close Works

Pr ior y LB Cottage Tennis 151.6m The Orchard Courts Tel E x

Ha ll

Cemete ry 144.4m GP HORSEPOND

157.5m

Greenbank

ROTTEN 16

Mas t

ROW

140.7m High Ash C of E Rectory Farm Combined School

LOWER

UPPER WAY

Appled ore

Beechfield Re serv oi r

(covered) Swimming

Pool

WAY

BM 16 1.97 m

161.7m

Sm ithy

Midsummer House

Collects Pond

Duncombe House

Spring BM 142.55m

NAISBY DRIVE

PENNYCU IK

141 .3m Homerst one

POUND H ILL

Wh ite

Romany

Knights

El Sub Sta WARNERS CLOSE

Me lw oo d

Fieldview

TC B Eastaff

Cottage

Pond Pond The Collects Rectory

KNIGH TS

Ivy House The Old R ed Lio n

(PH)

BM 14 2.72 m

140.7m CLOSE

139 .1m

Holly House

The 144.8m

Grang e

Pineview

CUFF LANE El BM Nether Sub St ockwood Sta Hollow House

Red Height s The Play Green

130.5m Are a

LANE Broomhill House

IVY LANE DUCK END

ST OKE

Haines Farm GREEN

Orchard H ouse

HOLTS

Fossey’s

Yew Tree Ho use 139.7m

Wyngates

Wyngates Ca tt le ST OKE LA NE

Grid 11 9. 1 m Farm Cottage

The Ko pp ie

Roxburgh Not to a recognised scale Gable Path (um) House Cottage Sewag e Works

Trac k © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Pon Aylesbury Vale District Council. Pond Ivy Lane Licence No 100019797 2008 The Old Farm Issues Farm 1.22m RH 1.22 m RH 1 Great Brickhil Conservation Area

Trees feature prominently and extensively throughout and at either end of the village. Most prominent are those around Galley Lane at the northern end of the village, around the Grade II* Listed St. Mary’s Church, Brookhill Manor, Church Farm and Manor Farm Cottages. Despite the preponderance of trees and the existence of high brick and stone walls along both sides of Galley Lane and Church Lane, fine landscape views can still be seen north from Galley Lane and Little Brickhill Road, south and west from the cemetery in Church Lane and westward from the end of Church Lane past Rectory Farm across the Ouzel valley. The most notable buildings in this area are the rubble and limestone Church of St. Mary, the brick Rectory, (both of which occupy elevated sites relative to the road) and the brick Properties 56 Lower Way and The Castle.

South from this point, past numerous fine trees, one arrives at the thatched cottage 28 Lower Way, at the junction of Lower Way and Rotten Row. This fine ‘L’ shaped cottage abuts its Lower Way road frontage, thereby maintaining the roads characteristic enclosure but is set back relative to Rotten Row, echoing its more open character, with a small Green and high, treed embankment opposite.

Farther along Rotten Row and continuing up to Pound Hill and Green End development is more modern, but has not detracted from the character or appearance of the remaining older parts of the village.

Fine views are afforded from the northern end of Green End and Home Farm Lane, towards Little Brickhill. Similarly fine views across the Ouzel valley are also afforded from Lower Way opposite The Duncombe Arms P.H.

The southern end of the village is notable for the dramatic slopes in ground levels and the enclosure provided onto Ivy Lane, Stoke Lane and Heath Lane by the abutment of properties, hedgerow, walls and trees onto the roads.

From the junction of Ivy Lane, Lower Way, Pound Hill and Heath Lane, between the Old Red Lion P.H. and The Lodge, the road falls away to both east and west along Heath Lane and Duck Lane to the east and Stoke Lane to the west. This drop in ground levels provides fine views across a sloping green towards Broomhill House, which is Grade II Listed and said to have been built in 1912 by Detmar Blow, and also, above properties in Duck End and Cuff lane towards Heath & Reach. At the far western end of Stoke Lane, beyond the Grade II Listed Fossey’s are further views to the north and west towards Stoke Hammond and Soulbury.

September 2008