HeritageCollective

Heritage Statement

Sherfield School, Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire

On Behalf of Sherfield School

April 2018

Project Ref: 3498C

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Contents

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PART I: INTRODUCTION 3

PART II: RELEVANT POLICY CONTEXT 4

PART III: SITE BACKGROUND 6

PART IV: ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE 8

PART V: IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND POLICY COMPLIANCE 12

PART VI: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Project Number: 3498C Date: 12/04/2018

Authored by: Sara Davidson Document Version: Draft

Reviewed by: Ignus Froneman

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Part I: Introduction

1. This Heritage Statement has been prepared by Heritage Collective on behalf of Sherfield School. It relates to an application for planning permission for extensions to the main school building and for the redevelopment of a number of school buildings to the north east. 2. Sherfield School, shown in Figure 1, is located to the south side of the A33 south of the village of Sherfield on Loddon. The main school building, its gates and fountain are all grade II listed buildings. 3. In accordance with the requirements of Paragraph 128 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2012) this statement describes the significance of designated heritage assets affected by the proposed development.

Proposals and Relevant Background 4. Proposals at Sherfield School are twofold and include:

• A single storey dining room extension to the main school building alongside associated Sherfield School external landscaping; and

• The demolition of three buildings to the north east of the main school building (one of which would be considered curtilage listed) and, in their place, the provision of two new buildings providing a new performing arts building and science building. Gates, walls and piers 5. The proposed development has been based on an understanding of the significance, character and historic development of the site and its listed buildings and seeks to preserve the site’s unique Pond basin heritage values while providing enhanced educational facilities. 6. It is relevant to note that, in recent years, Basingstoke and Deane County Council (BDBC hereafter) have granted a number of planning permissions for development within the main school grounds which have all been accepted on heritage grounds.

Figure 1: Site location plan showing the site’s grade II listed buildings (base map © Historic England) Heritage Assets 7. The main school building at Sherfield School is grade II listed (UID: 491251) first designated as “Sherfield School, including attached terrace walling and steps” in March 2004. The school building is a late 19th century remodelling of an 1864 house. The remodelling works were undertaken by Fairfax Purpose of the Study Blomfield Wade (1851-1919) and C Frankiss for James B Taylor, a South African diamond miner. 11. The purpose of this document is to assist with the determination of the applications by informing the 8. To the west of the school building are its entrance gates, piers and flanking walls which are decision takers on the effects of development on the historic built environment. Value judgements on separately designated at grade II (UID: 491626). These gates were first designated in March 2004. the significance of the heritage assets affected are presented and the effects of the proposals upon They are contemporary with the main school building, dating to c.1896, and were similarly designed that significance are appraised. by Wade and Frankiss. 12. Specifically, this report assesses the effect on the historic built environment as a result of the 9. To the south east of the school building is a pond basin which was designated grade II listed (UID: proposed development and the capability of the identified heritage assets to absorb change within 491642) in March 2004. The quatrefoil pond basin dates to the 19th century, either being constructed their setting without causing harm to their significance. Particular regard is given to the provisions of for the earlier house on the site (Buckfield House, c.1864) or for Sherfield Manor in 1896. the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act, 1990. The report also sets out how the proposal complies with the guidance and policy of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 10. In the surrounding area are a number of additional designated heritage assets. These include the 2012 and local planning policy. Sherfield on Loddon Conservation Area and a number of grade II listed buildings; Milestone on A33 (UID: none provided), Range comprising conservatory, vine houses, walls to associated root beds and 13. The heritage assets affected have been observed and assessed by the author following site visits garden houses (UID: 139278) and Walled Garden (UID: 139290). Due to a number of factors made in 2017 and 2018. including physical separation, lack of intervisibility and nature of the assets the significance of these structures is not capable of being affected by the proposed development.

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Part II: Relevant Legislative and Policy Context

Legislation 14. Legislation relating to listed buildings and conservation areas is contained in the Planning (Listed 23. The importance and relevance of this definition is that it does not suggest conservation to be the Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Sections 16 and 66 of the Act place a duty on the same as preservation. Indeed, what sets conservation apart is the emphasis on proactively decision maker to have special regard to the desirability of preserving listed buildings and their maintaining and managing change and not on a reactive approach to resisting change. In its simplest settings. interpretation conservation could amount to a change that at least sustains the significance of a heritage asset.

24. Paragraph 131 to 134 describe two levels of potential harm that can be caused to the significance of National Planning Policy Framework designated heritage assets, namely substantial harm and less than substantial harm. These effects 15. The NPPF constitutes the Government’s current national guidance and policy regarding development are to be weighed in the planning balance according to the guidance set out within paragraphs 131 to in the historic environment. It is a material consideration and includes a succinct policy framework for 134, bearing in mind the statutory provisions above. Substantial harm to or loss of a grade II listed local planning authorities and decision takers. It relates to planning law by stating that applications building should be exceptional. Substantial harm to or loss of designated heritage assets of the are to be determined in accordance with the local plans unless material considerations indicate highest significance, including grade I and II* listed buildings should be wholly exceptional. otherwise. 25. Paragraph 134 deals with cases of less than substantial harm and notes that any such harm should 16. A draft revised NPPF is currently out for consultation. While there are several changes to Section 12 be weighed against the public benefits of the proposal. Heritage protection and the conservation of (the section which deals with heritage) these changes would not change the way in which the heritage assets are recognised as of benefit to the public. determination of this application is approached. 26. Harm is defined by English Heritage as a change which erodes the significance of a heritage asset. 17. Paragraphs 126 to 141 of the NPPF deal with conserving and enhancing the historic environment with much emphasis on “significance”, defined in Annex 2 as: Local Planning Policy Framework "The value of a heritage asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest. That interest may be archaeological, architectural, artistic or historic. Significance derives not 27. In May 2016 BDBC adopted the Local Plan 2011-2029 which sets out the council’s vision and strategy only from a heritage asset’s physical presence, but also from its setting." for the area until 2029 and is the basis for planning decisions. The following policies of the Local Plan are considered relevant to the application. 18. Annex 2 of the NPPF defines the setting of a heritage asset as: 28. EM10 Delivering High Quality Development: This policy notes that all development should be of high “The surroundings in which a heritage asset is experienced. Its extent is not fixed and may quality design and based upon a robust-design led approach. The policy contains a series of criteria change as the asset and its surroundings evolve. Elements of a setting may make a positive or upon which permission may be consented. Of specific relevance to this application is part 2c) which negative contribution to the significance of an asset, may affect the ability to appreciate that notes that development should “have due regard to the density, scale, layout, appearance, significance or may be neutral.” architectural detailing, materials and history of the surrounding area, and the relationship to 19. Paragraph 128 of the NPPF places a duty on the Local Planning Authority (LPA) to require an applicant neighbouring buildings, landscape features and heritage assets”. to describe the significance of any heritage assets affected by a proposal, providing a proportionate 29. EM11 The Historic Environment: This policy notes that development should conserve or enhance the level of detail. The effects of any development on a heritage asset therefore need to be assessed quality of the borough’s heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance. The policy against the four components of its heritage significance: its archaeological, architectural, artistic and notes that development will be permitted where they: historic interests. a) Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the significance of the heritage asset and its 20. Paragraph 129 requires LPAs to identify and assess "the particular significance of any heritage asset". setting, how this has informed the proposed development, and how the proposal would impact This should be taken into account when considering the impact of a proposal on a heritage asset, on the asset’s significance. This will be proportionate to the importance of the heritage asset including by development affecting its setting. and the potential impact of the proposal; 21. Paragraph 131 is particularly relevant, in requiring LPAs to take account of the desirability of b) Ensure that extensions and/or alterations respect the historic form, setting, fabric and any sustaining and enhancing the significance of heritage assets and putting them to viable uses other aspects that contribute to the significance of the host building; consistent with their conservation. c) Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the significance, character and setting of 22. Paragraph 132 applies specifically to designated heritage assets. It states that great weight should be conservation areas and how this has informed proposals, to achieve high quality new design given to their conservation and it requires a proportionate approach (i.e. the more important the which is respectful of historic interest and local character; asset, the greater the weight attached to its conservation). Conservation (for heritage policy) is defined in Annex 2 of the NPPF as: d) Conserve or enhance the quality, distinctiveness and character of heritage assets by ensuring the use of appropriate materials, design and detailing; and “The process of maintaining and managing change to a heritage asset in a way that sustains and, where appropriate, enhances its significance.” e) Retain the significance and character of historic buildings when considering alternative uses and make sensitive use of redundant historic assets.

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Part II: Relevant Legislative and Policy Context

National and Local Planning Policy Guidance National Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) 2014 30. The National Planning Practice Guidance (2014), Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment, Step 4: explore the way to maximise enhancement and avoid or minimise harm; and updated 10/04/2014, provides advice on enhancing and conserving the historic environment in Step 5: make and document the decision and monitor outcomes. accordance with the NPPF (2012). 38. Guidance under Step 2 notes that the asset’s physical surroundings and how the asset is experienced 31. In regards to the setting of heritage assets the PPG notes: (such as views, noise, tranquillity, sense of enclosure etc.) should be taken in to consideration. “The setting is the surroundings in which an asset is experienced, and may therefore be more 39. Step 3 is also important in making it clear that a proposed development should not be assessed in extensive than its curtilage.” terms of its impact on setting; instead it should be assessed in terms of the impacts on significance. That is to say, what matters is not the extent of visibility of the development or change to the setting 32. The guidance notes that a thorough assessment of the impact on setting needs to take into account, of an asset, but the extent of change to its archaeological, architectural, artistic or historic interest. and be proportionate to, the significance of the heritage asset and the degree to which proposed In some circumstances, this evaluation may need to extend to cumulative and complex impacts changes enhance or detract from that significance and the ability to appreciate it. which may have as great an effect on heritage assets as large-scale development and which may not 33. In relation to harm the guidance states: only be visual. At the very least the assessment should address the key attributes of the development in terms of its location and siting, form and appearance, additional effects and “Whether a proposal causes substantial harm will be a judgment for the decision taker, having permanence. regard to the circumstances of the case and the policy in the National Planning Policy 40. Paragraph 39 notes that options for reducing the harm arising from development may include the Framework. In general terms, substantial harm is a high test, so it may not arise in many relocation of elements of a development or changes to its design. It notes that good design may cases. For example, in determining whether works to a listed building constitute substantial reduce or remove the harm. harm, an important consideration would be whether the adverse impact seriously affects a key element of its special architectural or historic interest. It is the degree of harm to the asset’s significance rather than the scale of the development that is to be assessed. The harm may arise from works to the asset or from development within its setting.” 34. Paragraph 020 of the guidance notes that public benefits can be heritage based and can include sustaining or enhancing the significance of a heritage asset and the contribution of its setting, reducing or removing risks to a heritage asset and securing the optimum viable use of a heritage asset in support of its long term conservation.

Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets (Historic England, 2017) 35. This document, published by Historic England as a second edition in December 2017, replaces the earlier 2015 setting guidance. The document provides for a thorough understanding of the setting of a heritage asset and the relationship of the setting to curtilage, character and context. 36. The guidance document notes, in paragraph 18, that the protection of the setting of heritage assets need not prevent change. The document recognises that not all heritage assets are of equal importance and states that the contribution made by their setting to their significance will also vary. Not all settings have the same capacity to accommodate change without causing harm to the significance of the asset. 37. As per earlier Historic England guidance, the document advocates a stepped approach to assessing the impact of change within setting on the significance of heritage assets. This stepped approach is: Step 1: identify which heritage assets and their settings are affected; Step 2: assess whether, how and to what degree these settings make a contribution to the significance of the heritage asset(s); Step 3: assess the effects of the proposed development, whether beneficial or harmful, on that significance;

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Part III: Site Background

41. The most detailed cartographic evidence for the built character of the site and surrounding area is recorded in maps from the early 19th century onwards. The 1841 Tithe map (Figure 2) shows the general area of the site as forming part of a number of irregular open fields within Buckfield Copse to the south and a large residential dwelling to the east. 42. In 1864 a new residential property, Buckfield House, was erected on the site, likely replacing the earlier dwelling shown on the tithe map, Figure 2. Though no fabric survives from this period, the site is thought to have been occupied continually from around the 12th century. 43. Around the time Buckfield House was constructed, the open fields formerly surrounding the house appear to have been re-landscaped to provide the new dwelling with a parkland setting. Evidence of the parkland character of the site and its surroundings is demonstrated through the sporadically placed clumps of trees shown on the OS maps. 44. Between 1896 and 1899 Buckfield House was significantly remodelled by Fairfax Blomfield Wade and C Frankiss for James B Taylor, a South African diamond miner. It is this dwelling shown on the 1896 Ordnance Survey map (Figure 3). 45. At this time the only other building shown in the immediate surroundings of the house is the ‘U’ shaped stable block directly north of the dwelling. By the time of the 1912 OS Map (Figure 4) various other buildings and features can be seen. These include:

• A number of buildings, likely ancillary in nature, to the north east of the stable block;

• The pond basin to the south east of the dwelling (now grade II listed); and

• Various landscape features including meandering paths, parterres and quatrefoil arrangements. Figure 2: Extract from the 1841 Tithe Map

Figure 3: Extract from the 1896 OS Map Figure 4: Extract from the 1912 OS Map

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Part III: Site Background

46. The 1896 building itself has undergone numerous uses since its construction as a private residential dwelling. James Taylor later sold the house to Liddell family in 1908 who subsequently sold the estate to the Earl of Winchelsea. During the Second World War the building was use as a nurses’ home and, in 1947, the Earl of Winchelsea sold it to a girls school. At this time it was renamed North Foreland Lodge School (the school had originally been founded at North Foreland in Kent in 1909). 47. In the following years the school was substantially extended and a number of new buildings of educational use and character were established on the site, these can be seen on the 1968 OS Map (Figure 5) and in photographs contained in Part IV of this report. 48. At the time of the building’s designation in 2004 the school was again sold and Sherfield School was established on the site.

Figure 5: Extract from the 1968 OS Map

Figure 6: Extract from the 1981 OS Map

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Part IV: Assessment of Heritage Significance

49. It is recognised that not all parts of a heritage asset will necessarily be of equal significance. In some 54. Part of the 1864 house was retained as a part remodelling and the present day service wing of cases certain elements could accommodate change without affecting the significance of the asset. Sherfield School contains a mid 19th century service staircase with balustered newel posts, walls Change is only considered harmful if it erodes an asset’s significance. Understanding the significance lined with Delft tiles and the basement retains wine shelves and further rooms lined with Delft tiles. of any heritage assets affected and any contribution made by their setting (paragraph 128, NPPF 55. There are a number of 20th century extensions to the school (to the south west and north east). 2012) is therefore fundamental to understanding the scope for and acceptability of change. While these are not of any special interest, as confirmed by the List Description, due to their location 50. An assessment of the significance of Sherfield School and its associated ancillary features is provided at the building’s extremities, limited height and generally consistent palette of materials they have below. In accordance with paragraph 128 of the NPPF the descriptions are proportionate to the not impacted on the building’s overall design to any great degree. assets’ significance and are sufficient to understand the nature of any impact the proposals may have 56. As identified by the List Description the school building is of both architectural and historic interest as upon that significance. a principal element of architect Wade’s design with an impressive exterior comprising a mixture of Jacobean plan and Classical detailing. The relatively unaltered character of the building both internally and externally contribute to the building’s special interest. Sherfield School, Gates and Pond Basin (all grade II) 57. The separately listed gates, piers and walls (Plate 5) form part of a set piece of design with the main 51. Both individually and as a group, the main school building and its contemporary associated gates and house being contemporary in date and of comparable aesthetic being also designed by Wade and pond basin are of special architectural and historic interest. The List Descriptions of these assets are Frankiss. They comprise four tall panelled stone piers with moulded stone plinth, cornice and ball provided at Appendix 1 of this report. finials, with cast iron scrollwork central carriage gates flanked by narrower pedestrian gates and 52. The main school building (Plate 1 and 2) is styled on a Jacobean E-plan and features detailing of curved brick retaining wall with stone coping. The gates appear to survive in an unaltered manner both Jacobean and Classical character. The building is two storeys with attic and built of red brick and are of significance both as a result of their individual fabric but also due to group value with the with stone dressings, it features a large central porch with marble flooring and decorative ironwork. school. The roof is a steeply pitched tiler roof with tall brick chimneystacks striped with stone. 58. The origins of the separately listed pond (Plate 2) are not known and it may well date to the mid 53. The interior of the building (Plates 3 and 4) features a mixture of Jacobean and Wrennaissance 19th century (contemporary with the c.1864 Buckfield House) or 19th century (contemporary with styles (Wrennaissance is the term given to a revival of late 17th century architecture in the Sherfield Manor). Regardless, the quatrefoil shaped pond basin is of architectural and historic interest period c.1890–1914 in which themes from designs by Wren were prominent). The interiors are of and, alongside the main house and gates, forms an important 19th century group. The pond basin considerable architectural value and remarkably complete. Key features include the decorative timber has a base of brick with curved stone coping and a central terracotta fountain in the shape of an urn staircase, fine oak panelling, numerous carved marble fire surrounds and a number of elements of filled with flowers which rises from a fluted circular base on a naturalistic rocky outcrop. 18th century styled features.

Plate 1: Grade II listed Sherfield School, north front Plate 2: Grade II listed pond basin with the school in the Plate 3: Main entrance hall of the school, demonstrating typical background internal detailing

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Part IV: Assessment of Heritage Significance

59. Together, the three listed buildings form an important group of contemporary late 19th century Setting country house architecture with Jacobean, Wrennaissance and Classical detailing and important links 63. At the time of construction during the late 19th century the building was immediately surrounded by to the architects Wade and Frankliss. swathes of parkland with a number of agricultural fields located beyond the parkland (Figure 3). This 60. As identified in the preceding section there are a number of other structures within the school situation remains comparable at the time of the 1912 OS Map (Figure 4) where the parkland grounds. The majority of these date to the mid to late 20th century and are related to the later surroundings of the house seem to be more established with some of the former agricultural fields educational use of the site. These include, for example, the large sports hall, and a series of smaller being turned over to parkland. one and two storey detached buildings to the north east of the main school (Plate 6 and 7). These 64. The formal gardens of the building also seem more established with the pond basin present alongside buildings detract from the main building and are not curtilage listed given their post 1948 date. a number of formal terraces and parterres to the house’s rear and north side. The gardens also seem 61. However, a small number of the structures located to the north east of the main school were to have been extended to the north in order to bring in the existing lake which now features a boat established on the site by the time of the 1912 OS Map, or in the case of the stables, at the time of house. the main building’s construction in 1896-1899. These buildings were clearly ancillary estate buildings 65. By the time of the 1968 OS map (Figure 5) the educational use of the site is clearly reflected with a providing stabling, workshops and some accommodation. Due to their pre 1948 date and ancillary number buildings, including the large scale sports hall, and ancillary sports facilities in the form of use these buildings would be considered curtilage listed. Curtilage listing is criteria-based (i.e. any tennis courts and a swimming pool. These now form part of the established character of the site. structure that satisfies the criteria of date and location is included by default) and does not reflect on These later structures do not necessarily detract from the significance of the listed buildings and are any qualitative considerations (i.e. historic interest or character, etc.). Because it is criteria-based generally in keeping in terms of siting and design. They are all located on the general south west to this does not necessarily reflect inherent special interest, but it is relevant in terms of how the north east axis of development within the site which follows the 19th century built form and are of structures are dealt with procedurally in terms of planning and development control. Essentially they limited scale (bar the sports hall) and make use in keeping materials. are assessed as part of the listed building. 66. During the mid 20th century the setting of the building and gates were considerably altered as a 62. One of the curtilage listed buildings in place by 1912 is a single storey range constructed of red brick result of the re-routing of the A33 which truncated the estate, through an area of parkland, to the with a clay tile roof (Plates 8-10). This building most likely dates to the first decade of the 20th north. These changes had the effect of entirely altering the way in which the estate is approached by century and was most probably originally constructed as a workshop in this ancillary part of the changing the character of part of the original driveway and converting it into a busy A-road and estate, hidden away from the main house behind the stable block. Most recently the building has reducing the length of the once long and winding driveway as well as severing the lodge (still been in educational use and used as a science laboratory and now features a number of extensions present) from the main approach to the house. While the driveway to the school has been from the 20th century (Plate 10). This building is of limited to no heritage interest in its own right considerably altered since the mid 20th century the remaining portion retains a rural character being being of fairly standard construction and character. However, it does provide physical evidence as to flanked by grassed areas of land numerous trees which provide a befitting approach to the late 19th the understanding of the estate’s development in the early 20th century, as a later phase of the site’s main development.

Plate 4: Ground floor reception room within the school, Plate 5: Grade II listed entrance gates on the drive to Sherfield Plate 6: Post 1948 single storey red brick building within the school demonstrating typical internal detailing School grounds (proposed for demolition)

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Part IV: Assessment of Heritage Significance

century building. It is not until the viewer is within close proximity of the main school when the character changes to one of an educational facility with car parking and large scale 20th century educational buildings being present. 67. By the early 2000s the setting of the building was again considerable changed as a result of the establishment of the Sherfield Oaks Golf Club on former parkland and agricultural land immediately south and west of the school. In effect, with regards to land, this has left the school with just its immediate gardens, Buckfield Copse, a small area of open land to the north currently use for sports. 68. As a result of the changes to the setting of the school and its ancillary features which contribute to the significance of the structures (or better reveal their significance) include:

• The group value between the main school building, gates and pond basin (and to a lesser degree the former South Lodge which is now isolated and devoid of its earlier relationship with the manor due to the re-routing of the A33) which are a coherent group of late 19th century country house architecture; Plate 7: Post 1948 single storey red brick building within the school Plate 8: Pre 1948 single storey building (curtilage listed) within the grounds (proposed for demolition) grounds of Sherfield School (proposed for demolition) • Surviving elements of garden design including but not limited to the grade II listed bond basin; and

• Buckfield Copse, the area of woodland adjacent to the house and present since at least the early 19th century.

Plate 9: Pre 1948 single storey building (curtilage listed) within the Plate 10: Modern extension to curtilage listed building (proposed grounds of Sherfield School (proposed for demolition) for demolition)

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Part V: Impact Assessment and Policy Compliance

69. This section appraises the impacts of the proposed development on the heritage sensitivities identified within the report. It seeks to support the Local Planning Authority in their decision making process.

Impact Assessment 70. Current proposals for the school site are twofold and entail: i) a dining room extension to a 20th century extension to the main school building; and ii) the demolition of three existing buildings and subsequent replacement with a new performing arts and science centre. These works and their effect on the identified heritage assets with regards to significance and setting are considered in the subsections below.

Dining Room Extension 71. In order to be able to rationalise the kitchen facilities at the school and provide additional capacity within the dining room a small dining room extension is proposed. This is in the form of a single storey, flat roofed glazed addition to the main school building. 72. While an extension to the main school structure, a grade II listed building, this addition is only attached to its red brick late 20th century additions (Plates 11 and 12). As such, there will be no effect on either historic or significant fabric of the grade II listed building. 73. Due to the limited scale of the dining room addition and the existing built form of the 20th century extension, the dining room addition cannot be seen from the front elevation of the school. It is only Plate 11: Existing late 20th century red brick extensions to the north east of Sherfield School appreciable from the building’s rear gardens and in context with its rear elevation. 74. In these views the dining room addition will be appreciated as a high quality and modestly scaled modern addition to the existing low quality extension of the building. The primary use of glazing, simplistic detailing and limited scale/massing (fully contained by the massing of the existing late 20th century extensions as shown by Plate 12) will ensure that the extension does not demand undue attention away from the historic core of the listed building or detract from its architectural interest. Rather, due to its high quality design and simplistic form there will be a slight aesthetic improvement in longer range views, for example those from the south east end of the gardens adjacent to the separately grade II listed pond basin. 75. The location of the dining room extension is informed by the existing siting of the kitchen but is also characteristic of the site’s historic development where the main house has been left predominantly unaltered with additions and new structures being provided on a north east/south west axis. 76. Internal alterations associated with this part of the scheme involve reconfigurations within the late 20th century extension to increase the scale of the kitchen and add a new servery. These alterations will not affect the site’s heritage value. 77. The proposals also entail the replacement of existing external seating and landscaping works. The landscape works provide a new planting bed within the corner created by the historic building and late 20th century addition (to the immediate left hand side of the dining room addition). This planting bed buts against the walls and both the upper and lower steps which form part of the listed building. At present the lower steps are somewhat isolated and no longer directly relate to any particular path; the path circumvents the steps. Providing a planting bed in this location will reinstate a more formal path which directly uses the steps. This will reconnect the lower and upper steps and is a slight heritage benefit.

Plate 12: Rear elevation of Sherfield School with the late 20th century extension. Showing the approximate location of the dining room addition highlighted

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Part V: Impact Assessment and Policy Compliance

78. Overall, the proposed dining room addition is a minor alteration to the grade II listed school building 85. While larger, these buildings are broadly in keeping with the scale of the surrounding built form, that does not result in any harm to the significance of the grade II listed building. Rather, it will result including the Lydney Pre building and remain demonstrably more limited in scale than and in a slight benefit though landscaping proposals and the provision of high quality architecture which subservient to the main school structure. replaces part of the low quality late 20th century educational extension. The proposals will amount to 86. Due to existing built form (namely the site’s former stable block) and tree cover these two buildings a highly limited change within the setting of the separately grade II listed pond basin and gates which will not be appreciable when viewing the main elevation of the grade II listed Sherfield School (as will preserve their significance. demonstrated by Plate 13). As such, key views of the building which best demonstrate its special interest and significance will remain unaltered. Performing Arts & Science Centre 87. Directly south of the proposed buildings, for example within and just beyond the fenced play area of Lydney Prep and Loddon, the proposed buildings will be visible. However, from this part of the site, 79. In order to provide an up to date performing arts and science centre at Sherfield School a series of there is limited to no ability to appreciate the unique heritage values of the building. three buildings are proposed to be demolished. Two of the three buildings date from the late 20th century and are of no heritage value. The removal of these buildings from the site will not result in 88. In views from further south/east within the school’s rear grounds, the proposed buildings will also be any detrimental effect on the site’s listed buildings but will, instead, offer an opportunity for the relatively obscured due to existing tree cover and built form (specifically Lydney Prep and Loddon); erection of high quality built form on the site. the screening effect is demonstrated by Plate 14. 80. The third building is, due to its date, location and ancillary use, identified as part of the listed building 89. Despite the heavy screening provided it is possible that the proposed development may be glimpsed (i.e. curtilage listed). This building, which dates to the early 20th century, is likely a former workshop in long range views which also take in the grade II listed school’s rear elevation. However, this would which is currently used as a science laboratory. The structure is of limited heritage interest in its own not result in any harmful or detracting effect due to: right being of fairly standard construction and character but does, to a limited degree, contribute to • The proposed buildings, despite their scale, being predominantly screened in these views; the historic interest of the estate insofar as how it evolved in the early 20th century. 81. The removal of this building will result in the removal of some early 20th century fabric which • The proposed buildings being periphery in such views and set at quite a distance provides physical evidence as to the estate’s development during that period. However, this is not (approximately 70m) from the historic core of the grade II listed building meaning that considered to result in any harm to the significance of the site’s listed buildings (specifically the main the grade II listed building will remain the site’s dominant feature; school building) due to:

• The lack of direct association with any of the site’s main phases of development, namely i) the pre-1841 dwelling, ii) the 1864 dwelling, and iii) specifically, the present day house dating from 1896-99;

• The lack of intervisibility (either direct or indirect) between the main school building and the former workshop;

• The low value of the building in its own right as an early 20th century workshop of limited quality and standard construction methods and materials; and

• The building’s lack of intactness due to the high level of alteration and extension undertaken. The building is currently in use as a science laboratory. 82. Following the demolition of these buildings the propsoals entail the construction of two buildings (a science building and a performing arts building) which are linked by a first floor glazed corridor. 83. The science building is two storeys in height and is arranged in a series of three high quality red brick gables which provides the building with a modern reference to the main grade II listed school building. This building is arranged on the site’s established north east/south west axis and follows the established southerly building line of the existing Prep/Wynstow building. 84. The performing arts centre is a part two, part three storey building constructed of high quality red brick. The building is rectangular in form and massing and features flat roofs and a second floor roof terrace. The southern elevation of this building aligns with the established building line of the Prep/ Wynstow building and the science building but is aligned at right angles (on a north west/south east axis). As such, the two buildings along with The Cottage provide an area of formal open space (a courtyard) where landscaping works are proposed. This arrangement provides an improved setting for The Cottage, a curtilage listed building of both architectural and historic merit. Figure 7: CGI of the south front of the Performing Arts & Science Centre (tree cover is not accurately represented here to allow clear view)

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Part V: Impact Assessment and Policy Compliance

• The buildings being located on the established axis of devolvement and amongst existing 92. The drawing will show the areas of proposed new external lighting on and around the proposed more recent educational built form including Lydney Prep and Loddon which acts as a buildings, stating the lux levels and type of light fitting being proposed. The report will assess the buffer between the new development and the listed school building; proposals in relation to the Institute of Lighting Engineers (ILE) document Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Obtrusive Light GN01:2011. The scheme will be classified as an Environmental Zone E2 • The proposed buildings being on the established building line of the Prep/Wynstow - Rural. building and therefore stepped back from the main school’s rear elevation; and

• The set back of the upper storey of the performing arts centre from the building’s southern elevation which will limit the visual presence of this part of the building in long Policy Compliance range views; and 93. The proposed development involves the provision of a modest dining room extension to Sherfield School and a new performing arts and science centre within the setting of the grade II listed school • The high quality and site influenced built form visible (where glimpses are possible) which group (comprising the separately listed school and its associated gates and pond basin). These works would include a series of gable ends and high quality red brick. are based on a thorough understanding of the historic development, character and significance of the 90. Overall, the proposed performing arts and science centre will provide much needed additional grade II listed buildings including the historic development of their surroundings and the contribution teaching facilities for the school and will not, due to the buildings’ siting, scale, form and appearance, their setting makes to that significance. result in harm to the significance of the grade II listed Sherfield School. With regards to the 94. The proposed development seeks to provide a dining room extension to the main school and a new separately listed pond basin and gates, the proposed buildings will amount to a very limited change performing arts and science centre for Sherfield School. These works will amount to a physical within their setting which will preserve their significance. alterations to the grade II listed building through the dining room extension and the demolition of a curtilage listed building and change within the setting of the site’s three listed buildings: the main school, the gates, piers and walls and the pond basin (all grade II). 91. External Lighting 95. Throughout the design evolution the significance of heritage assets has informed the proposals 91. Max Fordham LLP are the M&E and lighting designers for the scheme at Sherfield School. There will insofar as the scheme seeks to provide additional facilities for the school in a sympathetic manner. be a limited amount of building mounted lighting, as well as some small areas of lighting in the New development is of high quality design, makes use of site specific detailing and materials, is landscape. Max Fordham LLP will be preparing an external lighting statement and site layout drawing carefully sited to respect the established north east/south west axis and from all aspects allows the to accompany the planning submission. grade II listed main school building to be the dominant feature of the site.

Plate 13: Front elevation of Sherfield School demonstrating dense screening Plate 14: View towards the site of the performing arts and science centre demonstrating the existing screening present

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Part V: Impact Assessment and Policy Compliance

96. The preceding section presents an assessment of the impact of the proposed development and it is ascertained that the proposals will preserve the significance of all three of the site’s listed buildings. As such, the proposed development would fall outside of the remit of paragraphs 132-134 of the NPPF as they will not result in any harm to, or loss of significance of the grade II listed buildings. The dining room extension, by virtue of landscaping proposals and high quality design, will result in a slight enhancement to the significance of the grade II listed school building. The demolition of an early 20th century building (procedurally treated as part of the main school listed building) and two late 20th century buildings to accommodate the new performing arts and science centre will not result in any appreciable harm or effect on the significance of the school or other listed buildings on the site. The new performing arts and science centre will result in a change within the setting of the listed buildings but this is an already altered part of the buildings’ settings and will not harm significance. 97. Due to the proposals preserving the significance of the grade II listed buildings they are also found to be in accordance with the requirements of the 1990 Act, NPPF, relevant Local Plan policies EM10 and EM11 and national heritage guidance.

Plate 13: Front elevation of Sherfield School demonstrating dense screening Plate 14: View towards the site of the performing arts and science centre demonstrating the existing screening present

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Part VI: Summary and Conclusions

98. This report has undertaken an assessment of the significance of Sherfield School and its associated gates and pond basin, all grade II listed buildings. The report goes on to present an appraisal of the effects of the proposed development on the significance of these building with consideration given to local and national policy and guidance. 99. The proposed development involves the provision of an extension to the dining room and the erection of a new performing arts and science centre following the demolition of three existing buildings on the site, one of which due to its date, ancillary use and location would be considered as part of the main school listed building. 100. The site’s listed buildings date from c.1896 (though remnants of an 1864 dwelling survive within the main building and the pond basin may relate to an earlier phase of development on the site). The three designated heritage assets are of special architectural and historic interest as a relatively unaltered set piece of high quality design and a principal element of architect Wade’s work. While the structures themselves are relatively unaltered their setting has undergone considerable change as a result of the educational use of the site (which has introduced new elements of built form and landscaping). 101. As identified in the preceding section, the dining room extension will result in a high quality modestly scaled glazed addition to the grade II listed main school. Due to its careful location, scale, form and detailing the extension will preserve the significance of the main school and its separately listed ancillary features. Due to landscaping proposals which reconnect a listed series of steps with the main school building and the high quality architectural merit of the extension these works also amount to a slight enhancement. 102. In accordance with the assessment presented in Part V of this report the new performing arts and science centre will also preserve the significance (and ability to appreciate that significance) of the site’s listed buildings by virtue of its appropriate siting, location, detailing and appearance. Though resulting in the removal of an early 20th century workshop (curtilage listed) this will not result in any effect on the school’s significance or the ability to appreciate this significance. This element of the scheme will result in a change within the setting of the site’s listed buildings. 103. Overall, the proposed development will preserve, i.e. not result in harm to, the special interest, significance and setting of the site’s listed buildings namely, the main school, gates and pond basin (all grade II). As such, the proposed development at Sherfield School is in accordance with the requirements of the 1990 Act and comply with local and national planning policy and guidance.

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Appendix 1: List Descriptions

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Appendix 1: List Descriptions

Sherfield School

Name: SHERFIELD HOUSE SCHOOL INCLUDING ATTACHED TERRACE WALLING AND STEPS SHERFIELD panelled door. The Zodiac Room (originally Boudoir) also has early C18 style features with a plastered SCHOOL (FORMERLY NORTH FORELAND LODGE SCHOOL) INCLUDING ATTACHED TERRACE WALLING AND ceiling decorated with swags and the signs of the zodiac, an elaborate cornice and a fireplace with eared STEPS architraves and a swag frieze. The Sun Room was originally an open loggia but was extended after 1910 and glazed-in and has a marble floor and Japanese wallpaintings or wallpaper. The Gallery (originally the

Drawing Room) has two stone bolection-moulded fireplaces and the Library (originally the Dining Room) List entry Number: 1390726 has fine oak C18 style panelling with pilasters. The former Study has an elaborate fireplace with rose and pomegranite motifs to the spandrels, Ionic pilasters and built-in oak shelving. The former Garden Room County: Hampshire (later Gun Room) has a marble fireplace with eared architrave and brackets, built-in walnut cupboards and District: Basingstoke and Deane a walnut door. The first floor retains a corner bedroom (later Headmistress's Study) with early C18 style panelling, a green marble fireplace with Ionic pilasters and Adam details and a plastered ceiling. Other District Type: District Authority rooms have marble fireplaces. The building also retains the 1864 service staircase with balustered newel Parish: Sherfield on Loddon posts. The former Scullery and Larder retain walls lined with Delft tiles and the basement retains wine shelves and further rooms lined with Delft tiles. HISTORY: The earlier house on the site was Buckfield Grade: II House of 1864. When the new house called Sherfield Manor was built for James B Taylor, a South African Date first listed: 26-Mar-2004 diamond miner, part of the 1864 house was retained as a part of the service wing. James Taylor later sold UID: 491251 the house to the Liddells, who sold it to the Earl of Winchelsea. It was used as a nurses home during the Second World War. In 1947 the Earl of Winchelsea sold it to a girls school and it was renamed North Foreland Lodge School, because the school had originally been founded at North Foreland in Kent in 1909. Details At the time of inspection the building had been sold again and renamed Sherfield School. A principal work of the architect Fairfax Wade with an impressive exterior, a mixture of Jacobean plan and classical SHERFIELD ON LODDON detailing, which has only been altered by the extension and glazing-in of the loggia in the early C20 and 289/0/10077 Sherfield House School, including atta 26-MAR-04 ched terrace walling and steps Sherfield some later C20 extensions (not of special interest) at the extremities. The interior, a mixture of Jacobean School (formerly North Forel and Lodge School), including attached terrace walling and steps and Wrennaissance styles, is particularly fine and complete. GV II Originally large house,later school. 1896-9 remodelling of an 1864 house by Fairfax Blomfield Wade (1851-1919) and C Frankiss for James B Taylor, a South African diamond miner. The building has a [Illustrated in "Recent English Domestic Architecture" a special edition of "Architectural Review" 1910. Jacobean modified E-plan but Classical architectural details. Built of red brick with stone bands and window "Buildings of England: Hampshire" p502. A Stuart Gray "Edwardian Architecture" 1985 p366.] dressings and tiled roof with tall brick chimneystacks with stone stripes. It is of two storeys and attics with tiers of mullioned and transomed casements. EXTERIOR: The entrance front has a projecting central full- height porch and projecting wing to the south west; the north east wing, part of the service wing, does not project as far. The central porch has a gable with oculus to attic, elaborate first floor window with curved open pediment and console brackets and pedimented portico with round-headed arches. This is flanked by a right hand bay with triple windows and a left side bay with tall mullioned and transomed triple staircase window. The south west projecting wing is gable ended and has tiers of mullioned and transomed casements. The north east wing does not project as far and is part of the service wing. The garden front has a corner loggia with round-headed openings (extended after 1910 and now glazed-in) and is of six bays which include two projecting gables with ball finials. The remains of the 1864 house are visible at the north east end, red brick with black brick structural polychromy and sash windows. Also attached to the garden front are brick terrace walling with stone balustrading and stone steps. The later C20 school extensions added to the south west and north east are not of special interest. INTERIOR: A mixture of Jacobean and Wrennaissance style fittings. Fine oak well staircase with high quality strapwork carving, dado panelling and plaster strapwork ceiling above. The Hall Vestibule has an elaborate wooden screen with metal grilles and marble paving. The southern part of the Hall (later called the Sofa Hall) has a strapwork plastered ceiling and fine oak panelling with Ionic pilasters, round-headed openings with shell mouldings and a fine marble fireplace dated 1899 with two paired columns and an elaborate wooden overmantel with strapwork panel and two round-headed niches. The Old Library (originally the Billiard room) has early C18 style dado panelling, a marble fireplace with eared architraves and drops and a two-

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Pond Basin at Sherfield School Gates at Sherrfield School

Name: POND BASIN TO SOUTH EAST OF SHERFIELD SCHOOL (FORMERLY NORTH FORELAND LODGE Name: GATES AND GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS 220M TO THE WEST OF SHERFIELD HOUSE SCHOOL) MAIN BUILDING SCHOOL MAIN BUILDING

List entry Number: 1390912 List entry Number: 1390875 County: Hampshire County: Hampshire District: Basingstoke and Deane District: Basingstoke and Deane District Type: District Authority District Type: District Authority Parish: Sherfield on Loddon Parish: Sherfield on Loddon Grade: II Grade: II Date first listed: 26-Mar-2004 Date first listed: 26-Mar-2004 UID: 491642 UID: 491626

Details Details SHERFIELD ON LODDON SHERFIELD ON LODDON 289/0/10075 Pond basin to south east of Sherfield 26-MAR-04 School (formerly North Foreland Lodge 289/0/10072 Gates, gatepiers and flanking walls to 26-MAR-04 south of Sherfield School (formerly N orth School) main building Foreland Lodge School) main build ing GV II Pond basin with fountain. This may have been built for Buckfield House, the earlier house on the site GV II Gates, gatepiers and retaining walls. Circa 1896, designed as carriage and pedestrian entrances to of c1864. If not,it was built c1896-9 for Sherfield Manor. It comprises a quatrefoil-shaped pond basin, the Sherfield Manor by Fairfax Blomfield Wade and C Frankiss. They comprise four tall panelled stone piers base of brick with curved stone coping and central terracotta fountain in the shape of an urn filled with with moulded stone plinth,cornice and ball finials, with cast iron scrollwork central carriage gates flanked flowers, rising from a fluted circular base. An unaltered C19 pond basin with fountain, which groups with by narrower pedestrian gates and brick retaining wall with stone coping. Unaltered late C19 entrance the main house. gates, gatepiers and retaining wall designed by same architects as the main house Sherfield Manor, now Sherfield School.

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