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What is the How was it Holtby Holtby VDS? produced? It’s an easy-to-read pamphlet After two public meetings a team contents... which: of ten or so interested residents was set up to steer the describes the village • production of the VDS. The Introduction Buildings and its surroundings in and its Launch Day on May 1st, 2004 – plain, accessible language, 3 Holtby and its People. 14 Building types. an exhibition and tour/quiz – was What is the Holtby Building styles. • sets out clearly what attended by some 65 people. All Village Design residents consider to residents of Holtby Parish were 15 Traditional/vernacular Statement (VDS)? be the distinctive and informed and consulted at every building features. people Who is it for? attractive characteristics stage by means of: Listed buildings. How was it produced? of the village and 16 The modern era. We the people of Holtby think its setting, • information leaflets The Church of the our village is a very special place. about the preliminary The village setting It’s a typical Yorkshire village, but • suggests clear and simple meetings and Holy Trinity. guidelines for the design of 4 Location. it also has something unique Launch Day, 17 Design guidelines. about it. any future development in History. the village, based on its • a questionnaire asking A green village. This Village Design Statement present character. residents their opinion Appendices sets out to discover what it is on the characteristics of 5 A rich habitat for that makes our village so special. the village, and on any wildlife. 18 Appendix A Producing these few pages other issues, Listed buildings. brought pleasure to a lot of Who is it for? 6 Farming: diversity people. But the VDS is more • For residents, to help • consultation on the and change. Appendix B than that; we believe that an drafts of the VDS, Other buildings them know more about understanding of what we have and appreciate our village. mainly through a display 7 Access by lane, track and other features inherited from previous at the Christmas mulled and path. of importance in generations helps us retain and • For planners and all those wine and mince pies Design guidelines. the village. develop what is best in our interested and involved in evening. the planning and 19 Acknowledgements village and its surroundings. development process of The area covered by the design Contributors to In these pages you will find a The settlement pattern the village and its guidelines is that of the village the Holtby VDS. quick look at Holtby’s past, a surroundings. envelope (see map on pages 8 Washed over Green study of its present, and some 10-11) and, where appropriate, Belt status. There are some points raised in the thoughts about how we might Holtby parish itself. Development. document which amount to hopes like the village to be in the future. The economy and desires of villagers and are We hope you will enjoy reading it. of Holtby. outside the control of the local planning authority. 9 Gardens and The Design Team reinforce the property divisions. point made on page 12 by Martin Lowe, Conservation Officer, City of Street furniture. York Council, that many of the The traffic threat. details that go to make up the character of the village cannot be 10-11 Holtby Village regulated by the development Settlement Plan control process. They are the result of the care shown by the individual and buildings. property owners. 12 Services. This document was accepted as draft Supplementary Planning 13 Design guidelines. Guidance to the City of York Council's draft Local Plan (as amended) on 28 April 2005. Front cover: Holtby from Mill Hill

Back cover: Reproduced with permission of Getmapping Plc. Licence No. 1569731

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R 6 nt because it was away from the to fend for themselves, and A Helmsley rwe The village of Holtby lies off the Stockton-on De er with open vistas all around. -the-Forest iv exposed high ground of the ridge down swoops a wild tawny. He R A166, 5 miles north east of the A166 Across field and Vale city of York. The road follows the and the wet land below. is thrown a few morsels as Stamford Warthill Bridge the Minster, proud and true, consolation” 59 Gate crest of a prominent ridge, part The Scandinavian origin of the A is lit by glowing sun Helmsley of the York Terminal Moraine. Local sculptor Sally Arnup Holtby name (Holt-by means Coppice talks of her owl sanctuary in golden hue. village) tells us the Vikings were Murton Low Catton Night sky studded here; and the Domesday Survey with planet and star “Each November we eagerly Dunnington of 1086 – where the name is is clear to the Milky Way afar. anticipate the return of fieldfare A1079 given as Boltbei – lists it among and redwing. Although they Scale 1 : 140,000 Bat with barn the King’s lands. King William and tawny owl in ghostly flight the raid our holly for its berries, we Kexby rewarded three of his barons with are swift shadows ‘six geld carucates of land (about forgive them” YORK against harvest moon’s 240 hectares of tax-yielding land) A bird and nature lover bright disc light. and manorial rights’. Since then B1228

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village u A Crown Copyright reproduced Straight Lane 8 1 Elvington O 2 9 by permission of Ordnance Survey of growth – from the mid 18th to r 2 e 1 on behalf of the Controller v i B of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. R the mid 19th centuries, and from Licence Number 100020818. the 1960s to the present day. A rich habitat Drought years have given us the setting... opportunity to clear away the The field for wildlife fallen branches from the has not been This feature provided a dry route A green village mature willows which grazed for over surround it, as well as across the once marshy Vale Viewed from any of the Weir Pond, on the northern a year. The primrose bank, on the waste dumped of York, much used by the 4 approach roads, the approach to the village, is the Straight Lane, is close to the by fly-tippers. Romans and by our village appears to be largest of the numerous ‘watering heart of the village, a living ancestors since prehistoric dominated by greenery holes’, rich in aquatic life, which The heron, on monument to those who have times. – trees, hedges and provided drinking water for large its occasional protected our natural verges from numbers of livestock. King Harold possibly natural verges which forays, has not deprived us of destruction. Verges provide paused at a vantage point soften the too many amphibians, some of sanctuary for probably as many just above Holtby to survey brickwork of the which, such as the salamander, as 70%.of all plant species. the Viking enemy before his 50 or so houses. have been introduced from our own gardens. The new owl-box, victory over Harald Hardråda at The tree fence and stile erected recently Brown Hare leaps across Green Lane Stamford Bridge in 1066. The population, And raises pheasant from its field of grain. by a landowner behind his house ridge reaches its highest point of which has many Weir Pond Who flies and glides with blackbird, thrush and crow, on Main Street will, it is hoped, just over 40 metres above sea mature small butterfly, bee, cuckoo and swallow. encourage the return of the level slightly to the south-west of specimens, is short-tailed vole and the barn owl The hedges - corridors of life Holtby. From here there are regularly being The village is also ‘green’ in its use of modern environmental to their previous habitat. for mouse, shrew, insect, bird, striking views in all directions added to with The Minster from Mill Hill and wondrous others only heard. across open countryside: York both native and technology. It is the site of one of Minster towering over the city, rarer types such the few, largely experimental, reed Ploughed fields patterned with print of badger, the Yorkshire Wolds, the as the red oak and bed sewage treatment systems in stoat and deer, give view to the Wolds, Howardian Hills and the North the holm oak. this country. This system, uninterupted and clear. York Moors, including the White developed in Europe in the last A small, recently planted Perfume of flowers, wild , bright and sweet, Horse of Kilburn. 30 years, uses the ability of the arboretum has a Wellingtonia, hawthorn, dog and guelder rose, common reed to absorb oxygen honeysuckle, here at your feet. Gingko and Cedar of Lebanon. into its roots, producing micro- In another recent tree-planting organisms which act as a form of Cattle and sheep laze and graze, History project of 3,600 native saplings in foals leap and dance beneath mother’s fond gaze. biological filter. a field on the edge of the village, There has been human The Wolds from Mill Hill In ponds, the moorhen, frog, toad and duck settlement at Holtby for the ‘first colonists’ – the ox-eye hope that this day, old heron will be out of luck centuries. A recently discovered daisy and the poppy in particular – New saplings and ‘first colonists’ Elizabeth Wilson Iron Age barrow in fields to the are already staking their place north suggests pre-Roman among the new trees.

4 Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 5 Parish Boundary to STOCKTON WARTHILL Major Roads Brockfield Sugar beet was taken to the York factory. Farm Farming: diversity Both did well on the sandy soils. Potatoes Minor Roads Design Guidelines 3 Public Rights of were an important part of the five-course Way (as numbered) Wandales and change Footpath Links 1. The surrounding countryside to Other Villages to STAMFORD BRIDGE rotation. provides a valued rural setting Farming was the mainstay of the Villages/Buildings e Grains, including oats, were grown for the an to the village, and should be L village until the 1960s, as it still is rr Holtby Lane ca numerous livestock, which included Molly d safeguarded from further Farm u for the rest of the parish. R and Blossom, my pride and joy. Nova Scotia inappropriate encroachment. Farm 3 Mirk Hills Deep soils on boulder clay and Primrose I was on top of the world when I drove Farm 3 This complies with the on sand and gravel, both a legacy Sandfield ne objectives of the draft City of La 1 them home from the ‘pike’ yard to the Farm y 2 of the last Ice Age, have attracted ltb Footpaths in Ho York Local Plan as regards the loaders for more sheaves”. 5 2 cultivators since the Iron Age. A Carr Goit permanence and protection of Brownhills Bridge HOLTBY and around (A retired farmer) Farm dramatic change occurred in the Holtby Moor 4 the Green Belt. Willow 1 Holtby 18th century, when the Open Field Grove Farm income was as dependent on The following actions should system was replaced by enclosure ne be taken by landowners, the sale of livestock as on arable La Holtby k c farming methods, which are more Grange a community groups and crops. The former provided the Fairfield B similar to those we see today. Farm Providence individuals, working with the manure so vital for improving soil Farm The high water table demanded 5 local authority as appropriate. e fertility. This system of mixed n a L effective drainage for profitable 4 ld farming is still practised today on fie st 2. More roosts should be located farming. Carr Goit (Carr = marshy Scale 1 : 30,000 Ea several farms, with cash crops such on farms and in gardens. woodland; Goit = open drain ) was as barley and sugar beet widely The Yews dug to speed up the flow of water 3. Hedges should be ‘infilled’ grown. In the 19th century ‘The into Osbaldwick Beck, which joins MURTON with a mixture of species in Yews’ was one of 12 local farms 6 Holtby the River Foss and finally the River Manor DUNNINGTON order to create greater supplying chicory roots to ‘Chicory’ Ouse in York. Seven of the 13 Crown Copyright reproduced 6 bio-diversity. Smith, a York merchant with a by permission of Ordnance Survey Cedric Dry farms were sited on the better on behalf of the Controller national monopoly on this product, of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 4. Natural verges should be cut drained land of the moraine, the Licence Number 100020818. which was used for blending with with flora in mind, allowing remaining six on slight sandy coffee. The Yorvic Way, a long- natural seeding. eminences so as to avoid the Access by lane, distance recreational path of In the 18th century, farming 5. Ponds should be preserved wettest lowland. some 65 miles encircling York, and regularly cleaned out. prospered from a number of track and path skirts the village to the west. In economic developments: the “I started as a farm lad at 15. In the VDS questionnaire many terms of its statutory duties 6. Retain existing meadows; Enclosure Act, capital investment Barley followed clover and was sown by villagers said they valued the under highways legislation, the encourage new meadows on by the Agar family (Lords of the hand. Best quality went via the Derwent open countryside around the City of York Council, in located sites; and manage by Valley Light Railway from Dunnington to Manor from 1640) and agricultural village, and having direct access cooperation with the landowner, cutting and grazing as Layerthorpe, then by main line to Speyside innovation. This continued until the to it. The network of 6 separate has recently restored Holtby appropriate. for whisky. middle of the 19th century. public rights of way within the No. 6 Public Bridleway 7. Where any tree felling is (Vengeance Lane). parish, together with bridleways necessary, consideration Vengeance Lane and country lanes, link Holtby to The country roads around the should be given to a suitable our neighbouring villages. The village, particularly those to the replacement. residents consider this to be an north-east, are excellent for attractive feature of a village cyclists, being relatively quiet, 8. Stewardship and private which is only a few miles from undulating and varied in their initiative schemes on aesthetic the centre of York. scenery. For the more and environmental grounds adventurous, they should be encouraged. even lead to the 9. Public paths, stiles, guideposts awesomely steep and fences should be checked slopes of the Yorkshire regularly and kept in good Wolds. To the south repair, including cutting and of Holtby, Sustrans maintenance programmes to National Cycle Route the correct width. 66 is immediately accessible on its 10. Signage to footpaths should be increased and improved.

Harvest in the 1930s passage alongside Hagg Wood from York to Stamford Bridge Carr Goit and Farfield Farm and on to Beverley. 6 Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 7 The distinction between the three cul-de-sacs off Main Street, village ‘envelope’ and the along Panman Lane, and on Gardens and Street furniture The traffic threat surrounding countryside various ‘infill’ sites. property divisions Other historical links with the past Main Street and Panman Lane are the clearly helps achieve these are provided by the Victorian letter lined by a mixture of narrow objectives, making the Most houses have generous box, the two pre-war road signs, pavements and traditional grass village separate from but The economy gardens, ranging from the one at each end of the village, and verges. The latter add to the feeling part of the surrounding of Holtby traditional cottage style to the two disused public water of spaciousness, but the increasing settlement countryside. expansive lawned gardens with pumps preserved on Main Street (in size and frequency of traffic through Unlike many other villages Holtby mature trees. The ever-changing this case the past is not too distant the village has caused considerable has until recently relied almost blossoms and foliage afforded by - they only stopped functioning erosion to the verges, and created Development exclusively on farming, and the 13 these gardens are an essential part when a piped water supply arrived a number of ugly scars. (see map on pages 10 and 11) farms in the parish still make of the ‘natural’ feel of the village. in the village in the 1950s!). The threat posed to the village by pattern... The development of the a significant contribution to the The gardens and properties the speed and density of through village originally followed a economy. In the last few years, themselves are separated by a traffic, and the effects of any Washed over linear pattern, one house deep on however, a number of number of different types of possible countermeasures such as each side of the principal new businesses have division, particularly hawthorn, street lighting or traffic calming, are thoroughfare, Main Street. This is a been set up: privet and beech hedges, brick issues under review. Green Belt status distinctive feature of Holtby, being walls, railings and traditional fences. Holtby is one of the 12 small typical of medieval northern lowland • A.S. Cockerill Ltd, potato distributor on a national scale. A major supplier to An interesting feature of the villages within the area of City of development patterns. Walkers Crisps. gardens is the survival in some York Council which have the status The Church of the Holy Trinity is • Trevor Smith Landscapes Ltd, properties of the garths or burgage of ‘Washed over Green Belt’ set in a dominant position on raised landscape gardener. Projects include plots behind the houses lining Main settlement. ground at the centre of the village. the memorial gardens at the sites of Street. These long narrow strips of These villages, which are The older houses of the village date Great Heck, Southhall, Hatfield and land - also sometimes called crofts There are about half a dozen Potters Bar rail disasters. generally relatively remote from the from the period 1750-1850, when or tofts - are usually of about water pumps remaining besides the 1 main transport corridors, have agriculture prospered, but as • Sally and Mick Arnup Studios. ⁄4 acre, and on them tenants had two boxed village pumps, providing limited potential for new agriculture languished after 1850, Sally has an international reputation for workshops, grew vegetables and a reliable and safe supply from the her bronze animal sculptures; Mick is a development, and contribute to the no further need arose for extra potter and painter. often kept livestock for domestic sand aquifer lying close to the main objectives of the Green Belt – houses. It was not until the 1960s use. surface. One pump is embossed • Proactis Group Ltd. Software to maintain the historic character of that building took place in the development company supplying 1837 ‘B.A’ (Esq’) by a landowner York and to safeguard the ample space available. Some 30 e-Procurement and Spend Control and member of the ‘gentry’, Main Street North countryside from urban sprawl. houses were constructed in the software to international clients. Benjamin Agar. This was a familiar practice at the time – water being a precious commodity! The red BT phone box on Main Street is a ‘minor’ landmark we hope to retain.

Holtby House wall and railings

Panman Lane in snow

Main Street North approach

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7 3 16 1 Beech Tree Cottage 2 The Limes 14 3 Sycamore House 15 4 5 4 Manor Farm 5 Spring Cottage (Rydal House) 6 Taylors Farmhouse 7 Nova Scotia Farmhouse 8 Church of The Holy Trinity 8 9 Holtby House 10 Sycamore Cottage 11 Rose Cottage Scale 1 : 2000 12 Poverty Farm Listed Buildings 13 The Cottage Other Old Houses 16 17 14 The Old Rectory 15 Laurel Cottage Post War Houses 16 Crown Copyright reproduced by permission Dunlea and Virginia Cottage of Ordnance Survey on behalf of Village Envelope the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 17 Weir House Licence Number 100020818. 10 Holtby Village Design Statement Services Over the years Holtby has boasted City of York Council – in addition to a number of Sometimes it is important to state members of the ‘gentry’, the Rector the obvious. Holtby’s main charm and several yeomen – a joiner, and character derives from it being, wheelwright, shoemaker, essentially, a good survival of a blacksmith, solicitor, assistant poor- small, traditional Vale of York Worn verges on Main Street law commissioner and grocer*. village. It has not been significantly Church Rise from Church Tower Until 1866 there was also a transformed by large residential victualler – the landlord of the housing developments, light Duke of Wellington pub. industry or major road At the moment (2005) there are improvements… no commercial services within the Martin Lowe, Conservation Officer, village, not even a post office. City of York Council Nor are there playing fields, village green or square. This means that Straight Lane although extensive services and Taylors Close shops are available in neighbouring villages, within a 2-mile radius, there is no focal point for people to The southern part and the northern meet; the only community gathering extent of Holtby have a strong and Design guidelines points are the church and the cohesive historic character that is of 11. As Holtby is washed over 15. Gardens, especially burgage a significant quality. This character Green Belt in the draft City of plots, being important evidence Village Hall (Institute). Main Street South is partly due to a relatively high York Local Plan, the erection of of the historic layout of the early Several villagers commented on number of listed buildings within new buildings or the reuse of village, should be especially this deficiency in the questionnaire. such a small settlement (seven existing buildings should protected. A former resident recalls a time constitute only limited infilling Although the number 10 bus from 16. Telephone and power cables separate entries), but also due to the shortly after the Second World War that would not prejudice the Stamford Bridge to Poppleton should be routed underground unspoilt character of a number of when openness of the Green Belt. provides an excellent service, wherever practicable. unlisted buildings. This survival is Form and scale of development running every 20 minutes, the bus in the main due to the owners and “… Holtby was divided into three: should be appropriate to the 17. The rural appearance of village stop is some distance away, tenants of the buildings themselves, Jacques Farm (Manor Farm) and location and complement the streets should be maintained by and is currently (2004) extremely Approach from cohesive character of the village. means of grass verges, not rather than any external pressure the cottages opposite was one Holtby Lane kerbs, wherever possible. difficult to access because of the such as the planning system… enclave, with a gap for Holtby House 12. The village’s washed over heavy traffic in the narrow confines between them and us (The Green Belt status within the 18. Retain and maintain historic of Panman Lane. . Martin Lowe, Conservation Officer, draft Local Plan is important features, including the pond, Cottage), including Fewster’s Farm in maintaining the village’s phone box, village pumps and *Baines’s Directory 1822 (Taylor’s Farm) and cottage, then character and is supported post box. by residents. another gap beyond the Village Hall 19. Continue to investigate the to another little cluster at the 13. Development at the periphery of possibility of traffic safety junction with Warthill Lane” the village settlement limit should measures to reduce heavy only be considered where it would vehicle movements and the Blanche Coulson, resident 1939-83 not adversely affect the open speed of vehicles passing character of the village’s setting through the village. and entrances to the village. 20. Any advertising or signage 14. Boundary treatments should be should respect the context of Panman Lane exit sympathetic to their location: the village; it should be low key the use of traditional treatments (colour, size and lighting) and in such as hedges, iron railings keeping with a rural village. and brick walls is encouraged in 21. Any new street furniture should front boundary treatments; in be sympathetic to the village, back boundary treatments the and of an appropriate style. use of stock fences and palisade type wooden walls is discouraged.

12 Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 13 Brick porches: Building types Building styles Traditional/vernacular where these exist, Within the defined settlement The historical 18th and 19th building features they are by tradition envelope of the village, which century buildings of Holtby are of functional rather than covers an area of 6.7 hectares two different architectural styles, Certain design features can be decorative. (approx 16.75 acres), there are 48 namely the vernacular and the seen repeated in many of the The village has a dwelling houses. The houses are polite. These two styles have houses of this period: few examples of situated on either side of a single certain similarities, but each has its String course: a raised band of single storey cottages road of medieval origin, Main own distinctive characteristics. brick at first floor level; being enlarged to Street, which divides the village into Vernacular is the local style of two storey houses by two almost equal areas of Chimney stack and pantiles, architecture. Being the older and means of raising the Manor Farmhouse settlement. The main focus of the lower in status, it is to be found in wall height, often historic buildings is at the southern with a somewhat cottages and small to medium size Dentilation Outbuildings, Taylors Farmhouse extent, from Manor Farm down to houses. Their construction is of different type Listed buildings Holy Trinity Church. locally made clamp brickwork of and colour of clamp brickwork. There are 7 separate listed variable reddish colour, with clay Large stone/boulder foundations – buildings within Holtby, a large pantile roofs. The proportions and a not uncommon feature of older number for its size. This reflects the scale of these buildings are not Dogtooth houses in the region.- can be found strong historical character and the always regular: doors and windows in at least two vernacular houses: Tumbled Gabling quality of the village. The listed are often inserted into the buildings Spring Cottage and Virginia buildings are shown in Appendix A, Buildings... or, in some instances, blocked up, Cottage. page 18. Nova Scotia Farmhouse, indicating the evolution that has A number of newer houses have which lies in Holtby Parish to the Typically, the buildings are of taken place over their lifespan. incorporated some of the traditional North of the village, is also listed. In clamp brick construction with The Polite architectural style Dentil course: a band of Holtby construction detailing, thus addition, the unspoilt nature of a pantile or slate roofs, and they date tends to relate to a higher status of projecting brick at the eaves helping to retain the distinctive number of the unlisted buildings, from the 18th and 19th centuries. building client. Hence, it is sometimes in dog-tooth form; character of the village buildings. both vernacular and polite, adds to Although only one working farm, generally adopted in the larger ‘Tumble-gabled’ brickwork, with the visual attraction of the village. Poverty Farm, remains as at 2005, houses which emerged in the 19th raised verges, at gable ends: a See appendix B, page 18. a number of original farm century. Such buildings usually fairly common feature of this local outbuildings still survive in a appear to be better designed and style, which gives extra strength Renovated stables, The Old Rectory reasonably unaltered state, adding are seen to incorporate national and resistance to water interest to the village and bearing features, such as classical or penetration. Generally, such gables witness to its historic past.

gothic, rather than simply have stone or brick kneelers at the Fanlight, Beech Tree Cottage There is a good social mix of established local design. Also, eaves; cottages, farmsteads and dwelling improved transport in the 19th Tall fireclay chimney pots: either houses varying in size and design. century made it possible to placed at the gable ends, or along incorporate materials from outside the roof ridge, these are a feature the immediate locality, such as of the brick chimney stacks; limestone facings at door and window openings, and Welsh Timber hung (vertical) sash Gable end, Spring Cottage slate for the roofs. windows, divided with astragals (glazing bars) for up to 16 small panes of glass, and also Yorkshire horizontal sliding sash windows, each set in openings which have rubbed brick lintels or cambered arches.

Boulder foundations at Spring Cottage

Holtby Village Design Statement Casement windows Holtby Village Design Statement 15 14 & string course at The Limes The modern era The 15th century Tenor Bell, which was cast some time between Design guidelines Small scale post-war housing 1418 and 1432, bears the name of developments took place on either the York bellfounder William 22. Any future development in the sheds, meter boxes and Benbryg. village should respect the satellite dishes. These should side of Main Street, in Church Rise, character of the settlement, by be installed away from the Hillcrest and Taylor’s Close, and The Treble Bell is the work of being appropriate to the site in main building frontage also in Panman Lane. Whilst the John Conyers of Hull and bears the terms of size, scale and style. wherever possible. form of these houses is generally inscription ‘Repent in Time 1624’. 23. The green spaces in the form 29. New and replacement doors suburban, their location being Carving by Robert Thompson of Kilburn The distinctive mouse signature of of gardens, paddocks and and windows should respect ‘tucked away’ from Main Street Robert Thompson of Kilburn is to other breaks between buildings the traditional local style of means that they do not impose on be found on the oak panels and contribute greatly to the rural design and construction. charm of the village and should the historic core of the village. other furniture. The use of sustainable be retained wherever possible. materials is encouraged. Hence, there is a healthy mix The stained glass window in the Any new development should between modern and historic 30. Wherever possible, new North Nave, depicting ‘A doorway reflect these patterns and buildings in the village as a whole. maintain a sense of enclosure rooflights or dormer windows to the future’, was designed and where appropriate. to historical buildings should The Village Institute (Village Hall) executed by Ann Sotheran of be avoided where they are is of timber framed and clad Fulford, York, and was donated 24. Any development should detrimental to the character construction with a roof of profiled by the people of Holtby to respect, maintain, or provide of the building. views through to the open metal sheeting. It was mainly built The Church of the commemorate the Millennium countryside. 31. New garages should be by local Holtby men in memory of 2000. sympathetic in terms of design, the fallen in the 1914-18 war. Holy Trinity 25. Any new buildings or scale and materials to the main extensions should be dwelling and locality of the The church is the focal point of the sympathetic to location and development. village, standing as it does on a overall village character, with 32. Any future developments prominent raised site in a central the use of local design features and local materials such as should seek to retain a social mix location. The present church is reddish bricks (reclaimed of house types and sizes, built on the original Norman clamp bricks where possible) including affordable housing. foundations of around 1170. and orange clay pantiles or 33. The open aspect of Holy Trinity blue/grey slates wherever It was rebuilt in 1792 and restored Church, within its walled appropriate. Roughcasting or in 1881, using much of the original graveyard, should be preserved. colour washing to walls should stone - a distinctive Triassic be discouraged. 34. As the only remaining sandstone from Fishlock quarry in community facility in the village, 26. Any development of original Lower Teesdale - and the 1792 every effort should be made to Taylors Close farm outbuildings should retain the Village Hall. In any brickwork. preserve their appearance and future alterations or retain some evidence of their improvements the use of local Holy Trinity original use. viewed from materials and features in the East 27. Sustainable development in sympathy with the character of the form of green building the village should be used. design and re-use of building 35. New buildings should be materials would be designed in such a way as to encouraged on appropriate promote crime prevention and sites in the village. ideally meet the security 28. Residents should give careful requirements of the police consideration to the siting of 'Secured by Design' Award appendages such as carports, scheme. waste bin stores, garden The Millennium Window

16 Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 17 7 Nova Scotia Farmhouse: Appendix A Late 18th century brick farmhouse Acknowledgements Listed buildings – all grade II with pantile roof. We appreciate the professional The Holtby Village Design Team: (see map on pages 10-11) Rubbed brick band. help of: Terrence Dye 1 Beech Tree Cottage: 8 Church of the Holy Trinity: Beryl and Frank Gregory Early 19th century. Restoration from 1792 and 1881 Katherine Atkinson and CYC ‘Flemish Bond’ brickwork with Tony Tolson and the Yorkshire Margaret Sunderland of early Norman church. Owl French tile roof. Millennium window in North Nave. Vernacular Buildings Group Chris and Derek Utley by Jack (8) Gable coping with end stacks. Trevor Smith Elizabeth and George Wilson 2 The Limes: Cedric Dry Late 18th century. Appendix B Professor Brian Gibbons Design by Ian Forster ‘English Bond’ brickwork with

Appendices Other buildings of importance Heather Snowball Printed by Peter Turpin Associates Ltd pantile roof. in the village ‘6-fielded-panel’ door under (see map on pages 10-11) © Holtby VDS cambered arch. We also thank the following for Although none have been 'Listed' their financial support: 3 Sycamore House: (see Appendix A) the following Fox by Hannah (7) Late 18th century. historic buildings all make a positive Holtby Parish Council Central hallway entry. contribution to the character of Derwent Ward Committee Stepped eaves course and Holtby and are so important in the County Champions ‘tumbling-in’ to gable ends. street scene that their value should City of York Council be taken into consideration as part 4 Manor Farmhouse: Mid 18th century. of any development proposal. ‘Double-Pile’ construction with M- 9 Holtby House shaped roof (front part earlier).

16-pane sashes beneath rubbed 10 Sycamore Cottage Blackbird brick arches. by James (4) 11 Rose Cottage 5 Rydal House: 12 Poverty Farm (now Spring Cottage). Late 18th century with 19th century porch. 13 The Cottage 4-panel sash windows, modern 14 The Old Rectory extension to match style. 15 Laurel Cottage 6 Taylors Farmhouse: A special thank you Late 18th century pair of cottages 16 Dunlea and to some of our younger Boating at now one dwelling. Virginia Cottage village residents for their The Bungalow by Sarah Drury First floor band of bricks to right excellent drawings. 17 Weir House cottage only. Gable coping. Background image: Sunset, Holtby Background End and ridge stacks.

The Village Design Team at work The Village Design Team at the Old Rectory

The Millennium Party

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