Chackmore Conservation Area

CHACKMORE CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991

Chackmore is situated in rolling countryside two miles north of Buckingham and immediately south of the historic park and gardens of Stowe. Except for the modern housing north of the Main Street, off The Maltings, the village is primarily linear in form.

Dance Farm

DanceFarm The Little House

Jasmine Cottage Sheens

Issues 103.7m Pear Tree Cottage

THE MALTINGS Church BM

103.48m T

Gorran

Hambledon

Orchard

Lodge

CottageTCB

Maltings 101.8m

Bungalows COLLEGE CT

NEW

The Old or

Stables

Chackm Orchard The CottageThatch Cott Wyndham Nayle Cottage House Tithe Barn more Vine Cott Carradale Cott House

White Cottage Grenville PH MAIN STREET Lodge Weald The Manor The Brew House House 101.9m White House House Chackmore

Lodge 101.2m Dur-Lin

Ivy

SouthfieldCottage Manor Barn Cornwell

House

Manor Farm

Track

1 Chackmore Conservation Area

The approach to the village, off the Stowe Avenue, provides pleasant views across a small hedgerow lined Green where one’s attention is immediately drawn to the rubblestone elevation of the Grade II Listed Manor Farm and its attached barn. This view is framed by the extensive tree and hedgerow planting surrounding Chackmore Lodge, on the north side of the Main Street. Turning the corner, past Manor Farm one observes the thatched terrace on the north side of the road, comprising the Queen’s Head P.H. and the Grade II Listed dwellings Vine Cottage and The Cottage. The abutment of the properties onto the street affords a degree of enclosure which is a characteristic of many villages in this area. The enclosure is reinforced by Ivy Cottage and the Manor House on the south side of Main Street also abutting the roadside and the high stone walling which surrounds the new development opposite the Manor House and White House.

Whilst modern development has taken place in the village, the use of coursed rubblestone in the construction of these dwellings complements that used in the Manor House and Manor Farm. Beyond this point, at the eastern side of the village, stone gives way to brick as the major building component but the older, terraced properties, still maintain the characteristic abutment to the street. The Grade II Listed Hambledon Lodge, on the northern side of the road, is a particularly impressive building which features prominently in townscape views from the centre of the village. At the far eastern end of the village views of the surrounding countryside, which formed part of the extending parkland to Stowe House, can be seen along the road towards and south, in the direction of Buckingham, from Chackmore School.

February 2008