Doynton Conservation Area
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WHAT THE LAW SAYS The legislation controlling Conservation Areas is found in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The important points to remember are: New development must accord with the area's DOYNTON special identity and visual qualities. A high standard of design for new development or extensions to existing buildings is expected, in regard to matters such as scale, proportion, materials and colour. CONSERVATION The demolition, in whole or part, of unlisted buildings in Conservation Areas, requires special consent. AREA Special care should be taken to ensure that views into and out of the Conservation Area remain unspoilt. Advertisement displays are subject to strict control. Anyone wishing to fell top, lop, etc. a tree within a Conservation Area must give the Local Planning Authority six weeks advance notice in writing. GRANTS In certain approved cases, grants for enhancement or repairs in the Conservation Area may be available through the District Council or other sources. For further information please contact: Senior Conservation Officer South Gloucestershire Council Planning, Transportation & Environmental Services, Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire BD15 2TR Tel: 01454 868686 4/95 DOYNTON CONSERVATION AREA N POLICY OBJECTIVES FOR ENHANCEMENT The following objectives are set out in the Rural Areas Local Plan:- To preserve individual buildings, groups of buildings, walls, open areas, natural features and trees and to retain the essential interrelationship upon which the character of the Conservation Area depends. Development should preserve or enhance the existing character of Conservation Areas. Large scale or comprehensive development schemes will not normally be permitted and the emphasis will be on the selective renewal of individual buildings. Conservation Area Boundary (Designated 16th. February 1983 Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller H.M.Stationery Office. Crown Copyright Reserved. Deletions 1st. April 1991) Leaflet produced by South Gloucestershire Council South Gloucestershire Council Licence No. 100023410/05 Listed Building Printed on Environment-friendly Paper SETTING Many of the older houses have thick, rubble filled walls of attractive grey Cotswold stone. A number have also preserved original internal features such as open fireplaces and ceiling beams. Doynton is a picturesque village situated on the lower slopes of the Cotswolds, approximately 2 miles south-east of Pucklechurch. The River Boyd passes through the northern part of Doynton, and the village is surrounded by rich pastures and varied topography. The village is essentially linear in character with development lining the four main roads into the village. Doyton House Part of Doynton’s charm is that it has retained its village-like quality. Doynton has changed little in recent years, development being restricted to Brook House infilling. Indeed the title map of 1840 shows how little the village has changed since then, and this Doynton lies within the Cotswold Area of adds to the charm of this Cotswold village. Outstanding Natural Beauty and is also covered by Green Belt policies. HISTORY CHARACTER Doynton’s history can be traced back to the The historic core of Doynton was designated a Domesday Book (1086) in which the village is Conservation Area in February 1983. However, mentioned as having two mills. One was probably the area of Doynton Mill and its immediate a corn mill and the other a tucking or fulling mill surroundings to the North of the village have now connected with the Cotswold woollen cloth been deleted. Although the area has historic industry. Both these mills were important to the interest, its use for light industrial purposes and its survival of the village and were referred to again general character is now not considered worthy of in historical records 500 years later.The tuck mill, Conservation Area status. however, is not mentioned after the middle of the 17th Century although the corn mill continued in Doynton has a number of interesting older use until the 1950’s marking nine centuries of buildings, many of which are listed. These include service to the village. The mill wheel and old Doynton House (Grade II Listed), The Old machinery were then broken up and electrically Rectory (Grade II Listed), The Old Brewery powered equipment installed. More recently a (Grade II Listed) and Holy Trinity Church. light engineering firm has taken over the site. The Holy Trinity Church (Grade II* Listed) is at the centre of village. It was largely rebuilt between 1864 and 1867 but dates back to Saxon times. Its features include 12th Century herringbone masonry on the South Wall, a style almost unique in this part of the country; a 12th Century leper window, again situated in the South Wall; and the 13th Century Lady Chapel. The Old Brewery North West of the Church there is evidence of a The older houses are either 17th or 18th group of mediaeval fish ponds, which provided an Century. The 17th Century houses are important source of food to supplement the diet of characterised by their attractive high gables, such villagers in the Middle Ages. Doynton had a rather as Doynton House and The Old Brewery, elaborate group of ponds made by taking water whereas the 18th Century buildings display more from a stream via a leet to a group of rectangular formal frontages and have some affinity with the ponds situated in the field. architectural style of nearby 18th Century Bath..