Ickford Conservation Area

ICKFORD CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991

The village of Ickford is set in picturesque countryside just north of the River Thame, four miles west of Thame.

The older parts of the village are concentrated in four main areas; at Little Ickford; Church Road; Worminghall Road and around the Bridge Road/Sheldon Road junction. The latter half of the twentieth century has seen these four pockets of development connected by modern infilling, particularly on the north side of Sheldon Road and also along the Worminghall and Bridge Roads.

Views out from the village are limited by its shape and form and the preponderance of roadside hedgerow, but within the village there are a number of fine views along the roads both within

and between the older areas.

59.0m

WORMINGHALL ROAD

Rising Sun (PH )

58.5m

Ickford 60.1m

FARM CLOSE

GOL DER’S C LOSE El Sub Sta

CLO SE

58.2m

GOLDER’S

Chestnut Farm

Pond

St Nicholas’s Church BM 59.04m Chestnut Re ctor y Lodge

Pp Ho Appledore House

58.4m

Th e O ld

Tree Cottage 58.5m Pond CHURCH ROAD 58.4m

The Grange

North SHELDON ROAD

Church Farm Cottage

School

South Cottage 58.3m

Ickford

Pr im ary

Te l E x 59.6m Drain

School

TCB

58.5m TUR NFIELDS

Orchard SC HO O L C LO SE BM 59.06m House

El Sub St a

PH FIELD

59.2

SHELDON ROAD

El Sub Sta

BM 60.12m

GP BRIDGE ROAD

58.7m 59.3m

Pond

The Manor

Ickford House

Moreto

Manor Barn BULLS

Little Ickford

Ha ll

The Old Barn LAN E

BRIDGE ROAD

Bridge House 58.8m Pond

Pond

Aylesbury Vale District Council. Licence No 100019797 2008

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Little Ickford at the eastern end of the village has an TURNFIE

El Sub Sta attractive tree lined pond at its northern end but soon the

O N ROAD ‘open’ character around the pond is superseded by a BM 60.12m GP

heightened sense of enclosure as the buildings, walls and 59.3m hedgerows all abut the roadside and culminate at the head Pond

of the cul-de-sac at The Close. Many of the houses are sited The Manor

Ickford House Mo in relatively large plots, thatched and date from the 16th, Manor Barn Little Ickford BULLS

17th or 18th centuries. The majority are also Grade 11 The Ol d Barn

LA NE

listed. Pond

The tight abutment of houses onto the roadside is

maintained along the southern side of Sheldon Road and

the narrow cul-de-sac behind “Rose Cottage”, where the Little Ickford three thatched properties, 17, 19, and 21 Bridge Road are Not to a recognised scale located. All three houses are Grade 11 listed. © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Aylesbury Vale District Council.

n Licence No 100019797 2008 Elsewhere in the village, in Church Road and Worminghall Little Ickford

Road, there are a great number of fine mature trees and

SHELDON ROAD

School

hedgerows. This is particularly the case around the Rising

58.3m

Ic kford

Primary

Tel Ex

Sun P.H. Grade 1 Listed 12th/13th century Church of St. School

TC B

PO CLOSE

58.5m

Orchard SCHOOL CLOSE Nicholas. BM 59.06m House

PH FIE LD

PH 59.2

SHELDON ROAD

El Sub Sta

Properties in Church Road are set back some way from the

BRIDGE ROAD roadside in comparison to other areas of the village but the 58.7m

village’s characteristic enclosure is maintained by the tree

groupings lining the northern side of the road, around the

Not to a recognised scale

Church, the Rectory, The Grange and North and South

Licence No 100019797BRIDGE ROAD 2008 58.8m North and South Cottages. B Sheldon Road

59.0m

Chestnut Farm

Pond

St Nicholas’s Church

BM 59.04m

Rectory

Pp Ho

Appledore House

58.4m

The Old Tree Co ttag e 58.5m CHURCH ROAD Pond WORMINGHALL ROAD

The Grange

Rising Sun (PH) North

Cottage 58.5m

Church Farm

South Cottage LB

Not to a recognised scale Not to a recognised scale

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58.2m ’S GOLDER Church Road Worminghall Road

October 2008