Storey's Way Conservation Area Appraisal

Storey’s Way Conservation Area Appraisal

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1. Introduction A 2. The Planning Policy Context rea 3. Summary of Special Interest A 4. The Trustees of Storey’s Charity 5. Spatial Analysis 6. Architectural Overview 7. Trees, Landscape and Open Spaces 8. Key Characteristics of the Area on s ervation 9. Issues

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A 2 e 0 4 a 1 m 8 Policy andTransporton the1stApril2018. the ExecutiveCouncillor forPlanning 2008 andthisrevisionwas approvedby adopted bytheCouncil onthe8thApril be necessary.Theoriginal appraisalwas and noextensionswereconsideredto servation Areawasreviewedin2017 terms ofchangesinthearea.TheCon review wastoupdatetheappraisalin 1.03 TheaimoftheConservationArea city. forms partoftheareatowest bridge: itwasdesignatedin1984and ignated ConservationAreasinCam 1.02 Storey’sWayisoneoftwelvedes cal development. about itsarchitecturalmeritandhistori vation Area,andtoprovideinformation special abouttheStorey’sWayConser 1.01 Thisappraisalseekstodefinewhatis 1.

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NWCD givesanindication - - - 5 StoreyStorey’s W’say W Cayon Csonervationservation Area A reaApprai Appraisal sal rey’s Way will provide a more direct and attractive route into the city for cyclists and pedestrians than either Huntingdon Road or Madingley Road. As such it is likely to become a heavily used route so it will be important for traffic to be man-

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Entrance to The Ridgeway Cyle and 6 Pedestrian Path From Storey’s Way 2 . The Planning Policy Context pprai s al A 2.01 Section 69 of the Planning (Listed 2.1 National Policies

Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act rea 1990 imposes a duty on Local Planning 2.10 The National Planning Policy

Authorities (LPA’s) to designate as Framework sets out the Government’s A conservation areas any ‘areas of special planning policies for England and how architectural or historic interest the these are expected to be applied. character or appearance of which it is The chapter on conserving and desirable to preserve or enhance’. enhancing the historic environment discusses heritage assets which include 2.02 The special character of Conservation Areas. Conservation Areas means that the control of development is stricter than in 2.2 Local Policies other areas. on s ervation

2.21 The Cambridge Local Plan sets C 2.03 Therefore: out policies and proposals for future

• New buildings and the spaces development and land use. ay around them must preserve or improve the character of the area. 2.22 An outline planning application was W

The siting, scale, height, form, details approved in 2013 for development on s and building materials will all need to the North West Cambridge Development ’ be carefully chosen. Site. This set out the parameters of the development between Madingley Road and Huntingdon Road. torey S

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62 Storey’s Way 3 . Summary of Special Interest

3.01 The special character of Storey’s many of the trees are subject to Tree 3.12 Storey’s Way is an early twentieth Way is derived from the fine detached Preservation Orders. century suburban linear layout with

on s ervation family houses with their spacious gardens houses stepped back from the road (as defined by the original L-shaped plot 3.1 General Character at a uniform distance with large front C

of about 42 acres which was allotted and rear gardens. It benefits from large to the Trustees of Storey’s Charity by 3.11 There are three major distinct mature trees, which lessen the impression ay the Enclosure Award of 1805), and character areas within the Storey’s Way of ‘urbanity’ and present a compact, mature planting, which are interspersed Conservation Area. semi-rural ‘face’.

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’ Fitzwilliam and Churchill Colleges. • The main central area, which 3.13 An exception to this domestic consists of Storey’s Way lined by large character is the discrete space of the 3.02 The area includes seven Listed detached houses. Ascension Burial Ground, which Buildings, an Historic Park and Garden reinforces the landscaped feel,

torey and weight Buildings of Local Interest. • Colleges and their grounds. enhanced by the presence of the S Virtually all were built between 1912 cemetery, the Chapel and the former and 1924 (the chapel in All Souls • The Ascension Parish Burial sexton’s cottage. Lane however, dates back to 1875) Ground. and represent fine examples of the 8 architecture of that period. In addition, 3.2 Landscape Setting enclosed, natural space, the tombs 3.4. Archaeology and graves surrounded by flowers, 3.21 The area includes significant green dense undergrowth and mature trees, 3.41 St Neot’s Way (Madingley Road) space such as the playing fields of Trinity which is seen only when one is inside the was probably a pre-Roman trackway, Hall and Churchill College, the Ascension cemetery. and Huntingdon Road has been in use Parish Burial Ground, the wooded areas since Roman times. The additional name of the old University Botany Field Station 3.25 Adjacent to the garden of No. 34, for this road, Via Devana, dates from the pprai s al and the fields of the University farm. It is is the extensive woodland of Gravel Hill, nineteenth century. The triangular area likely, however, that this vista will begin which contains mature conifers and between these two roads contained A to change over the coming years as the deciduous trees. the whole of Grithow Field, and to the buildings on the NWCD increasingly take east of what is now Churchill College, rea shape. 3.3 Historic Development a small part of Middlefield. These fields were almost all divided into arable strips, A 3.22 Because of the comparative 3.30 Until the time of the Enclosure Act but there were also a few patches of flatness of the topography, there are no in 1802, the area between Huntingdon pasture, some gravel-pits and clay- particular high viewpoints or panoramas, Road and Madingley Road was largely pits and a few hedged closes near the and the overall impression is of a arable fields, stretching westwards from Girton boundary common building height and massing. close to the River Cam to the parish The only exceptions to these heights are boundaries with Grantchester, Barton, 3.42 Archaeological investigations have the new College buildings on part of Coton, Madingley and Girton. It had been carried out at several locations the former Trinity Hall sports ground (the seen little change for some 500 years. within the Storey’s Way area. In 2002 at on s ervation Wychfield site). The area in the seventeenth century Gravel Hill Farm it was found that much

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3.23 There are however, frequent views of Cambridge from the West Fields (in medieval [1540AD to 1900AD] gravel and vistas from many vantage points Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1685), which and coprolite quarrying, with only small ay along Storey’s Way. was sketched from the Coton footpath areas of undisturbed ground.

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3.24 Other important features are Ground. A little later, The Prospect of 3.43 Excavations at 44 Storey’s Way s ’ a track from Huntingdon Road to Cambridge from the North West by in 2000 revealed four chalk or lime Gravel Hill Farm, lined by protected, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck was drawn extraction pits [18th century?], in which mature chestnut trees, which provides from the gravel-pits above Trinity Conduit two 14th century sherds were found.

a seasonal border to the view across Head. The only significant building on torey

the 19-acre field. The Ascension the site by the early 20th century was S Parish Burial Ground, hidden from the University Observatory completed in both Huntingdon and Storey’s Way, is 1823. accessed by a verdant, rural pathway leading into the cemetery. This is a large, 9 3.44 Metal detector surveys in the area of proposed student accommodation in Storey’s Way confirmed the existence of a single section of medieval ditch, thought to be a trackside ditch for Grit How Way, a route from Castle Hill to the pprai s al gravel quarries at Grit How. A rea A on s ervation C

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Former Chapel of All Souls 10 4 . The Trustees of Storey’s Charity pprai s al A rea A

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4.01 The Enclosure Award of 1805 allot- W

ted an L-shaped plot of about 17 hec- s tares to the Trustees of Storey’s Charity. ’ The charity was established in 1692 when ‘Edward Storey of Cambridge, gentle- man’, bequeathed the rents and profits of his estate for the construction of ten torey almshouses for the benefit of widows S of Anglican clergy, and of widows and maidens ‘of sober life and conversation’ of the parishes of St Giles and of Holy Trinity. 11 4.02 The northern arm of the plot, with College in 1906. Some seven hundred of the new road were fortunate enough a frontage to Huntingdon Road, about feet of roadway from the southeast cor- to have an open outlook preserved to a mile [1.6 kilometres] from Magdalene ner of the Estate was to run south on St the north for some time. For half a cen- Bridge, ran south/south west for about a John’s Land, along the western bound- tury, there was no new building close to quarter of a mile [approximately 0.4 kilo- ary of the College’s kitchen garden the estate in any direction, except along metres] ending at Mt Pleasant, opposite Huntingdon Road.

pprai s al the buildings of Storey’s Farm in Castle 4.11 The principal roadway was con- End. In the late nineteenth century this structed in 1911; part of Storey’s Farm 4.2 Conditions of Sale

A land was bounded to the west by the had become Storey’s Way. The most cemetery of St Giles and St Peter (now easterly portion of the original Storey’s 4.21 The Trustees imposed a number of known as the Ascension Parish Burial Farm plot had already been sold to St Conditions upon the purchasers in order rea Ground), and by the Gravel Hill Farm of Edmund’s House. to ensure the creation of a pleasant am- Trinity College [see Archaeology], and to bience on the Estate. A the south by land belonging to St John’s 4.12 All the rest was included in the Build- College. ing Estate, which ended at the present • All buildings were to be of a domestic Murray Edwards/St Edmund’s boundary. nature (with possible exceptions for edu- 4.03 To the east, and partly to the north, 74 freehold plots were offered for sale, cational or religious use). were Trinity Hall Field and the substantial of which the six most northerly ones have • No building was to be nearer to the and spacious properties of Wychfield addresses in Huntingdon Road. By the road than 30 feet [9.1 metres]. House (1884), The Grove (1813) and The end of 1914 eighteen plots had been • Every purchaser was to provide a Orchard (1882). Emma Darwin, widow of sold, but during and immediately after fence, hedge or wall on his frontage and Charles Darwin, occupied The Grove for the Great War, sales were slow and the on one other designated boundary. on s ervation several years in the 1880s and 1890s, and last plot was not sold until 1932. • Business use of properties was prohib-

C two of her sons, Horace and Francis, had ited. the other houses built. 4.13 The plots varied in size from a quar- • Minimum building costs were stipu- ter of an acre [0.1 hectares] in the north- lated to ensure optimum quality of the ay 4.1 The Storey’s Way Estate ern area to one third of an acre [0.13 houses: £1,000 on each of the larger hectares] in the southwest corner, and plots, and £800 on the smaller ones. W 4.10 By the late 1890s the Trustees of half an acre [0.23 hectares] elsewhere. (These costs were later raised to £1,200 s

’ Storey’s Charity, having decided to raise There were also a very few at the east- and £1,000 respectively.) capital for re-investment by selling some ern end of the central section of the • The building of two houses on one of their agricultural land for high quality road which were larger than an acre plot was allowed but only two plots housing development, commissioned [0.4 hectares]. Until recently, there was were divided with a house on each plot

torey the firm of Carter Jonas to draw up plans no building on the northern side of the (present numbers 11/13 and 30/32).

S for a Building Estate covering about 35 central section of Storey’s Way, since the Semi-detached houses were allowed but acres [14.1 hectares]. Access to Madin- plots there were bought by the own- only three pairs were built: nos 2/4and gley Road, which was considered essen- ers of the contiguous properties (Trinity 18/20 where each house occupied a full tial to the success of the scheme, was Hall Field, Wychfield, The Grove and The plot and 11/13 where each house stood 12 achieved by negotiations with St John’s Orchard) and added to their respective on a half plot. The rest were substantial grounds. Consequently, the inhabitants detached houses, some of considerable architectural merit. Apart from two (No’s 21A and 68) all the houses were built within about two decades of the open- ing of the road.

4.22 There has been some erosion of the tight conditions imposed by the original pprai s al trustees, for example the removal of boundaries, but, by and large, their con- A cerns have mostly been respected. rea 4.3 Post-War Development A 4.30 The building of Churchill College, which began in 1961, signalled an era of change. This has continued until the present day with the development of the St John’s Housing Estate opposite Churchill, and the extensions and new buildings of Fitzwilliam and Murray Ed- wards (formerly New Hall) colleges. While these developments fall outside the Conservation Area, Trinity Hall’s Wych- on s ervation Ascension Burial Ground field ‘Garden Community’ development, C

4.4 The Ascension Parish Burial Ground built in 2008, is within the boundary. The Headstones Wychfield development is largely in sym- 4.40 This burial ground, listed as a Wildlife 4.41 The character of the Burial Ground ay pathy with the architectural vocabulary Site by Cambridge City Council, was for- has been largely maintained over the of the area, however it is of denser and merly known as the Cemetery of St Giles years but the setting is changing with the more structured layout. W with Peter (St Giles Cemetery). The cem- recent and planned developments on s etery was established in 1857 and the first adjacent sites and the two new houses ’ 4.31 Since 2010, two large Arts and Crafts burial took place in February 1869. It is (32A and 32B Storey’s Way) on its South style houses (nos. 32A and B) have been an ecumenical burial ground and in the boundary. To the west the views over built. Number 64 has undergone a ma- words of Lucy Slater, its most recent histo- the fields towards Gravel Hill Farm are jor renovation with white render and rian, ‘it contains graves and memorials changing as the NWCD is constructed. torey engineered timber cladding and an to many who were famous in the life of S oversized dormer. Despite conforming to Cambridge’. Amongst many well-known the building line and retaining the front names here are the two philosophers, boundary beech hedge it appears to sit Wittgenstein and Moore. rather uneasily beside its neighbours. 13 5 . Spatial Analysis pprai s al A rea A Dog-leg Traffic Calming

5.01 Storey’s Way is a fine suburban road buildings are set against minimal lawn section of Storey’s Way. The cemetery of distinct, but complex, character. The and hard landscaping. Where trees are is also partially marked by an old brick landscape and open spaces do much important, they are planted formally. wall. to contribute to the character of the on s ervation area. 5.04 There are three major 5.06 The approach to the cemetery,

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5.02 The most clearly defined open of this Conservation Area: the Ascension Church of England, offers a surprisingly

ay space in the Storey’s Way area is Burial Ground, the northern end of rural aspect for somewhere so close to Trinity Hall’s playing field. There are less Storey’s Way where it terminates at one of Cambridge’s main arterial roads

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s down the lime avenue to the Grove, to of the road which leads up to Churchill lie on either side and there are fields ’ Trinity Hall’s sports pavilion, and to the College and beyond. beyond. Wychfield hostels. 5.05 The first identifiable space, which is 5.07 Secondly, in marked contrast, is

torey 5.03 Abutting the Conservation Area are the most intimate and enclosed space, the entry into Storey’s Way from the

S The Crescent, and Churchill College. The with a predominantly rural feel, is the northern end, where the junction with Crescent and the collegiate sections Ascension Burial Ground. Much of the busy Huntingdon Road, is more open, have a more open aspect. The open cemetery is hidden from all street views, with a wide tarmac street and generous space in front of buildings allows views but may be glimpsed from some of the spaces between each property on 1614 to the architecture beyond, especially in back gardens of the houses in the north either side. Between each house may the case of Churchill, where the modern built upon, with modernlandscaping that partof theroadfrontageisentirely by residentialhousesopposite. Now former sportsgroundpreviously enjoyed Way haveblockedviews acrossthe at theeasternendofcentral Storey’s student accommodationbuildingsset 5.010 ThenewFitzwilliamandTrinityHall Edwards. spaces attherearentrancetoMurray Grove atthiscorner,andtheopen the avenueoflimetreestowardsThe Pleasant viewsmaybeglimpseddown relating fromthelandscapedsurrounds. quiet, andthereisadegreeofenclosure part ofStorey’sWayiscomparatively this corner.Despitethebusyroad, and MurrayEdwardsCollegesmeetat rear portionsofthegroundsFitzwilliam rounds towardsChurchillCollege.The another 90-degreebendastheroad the ConservationArea,wherethereis space isfoundatthesouthernendof 5.09 Thethirdsenseofadifferent point intheConservationArea. points andbollards.Thisisthenarrowest bend occurs,withtrafficcalmingpinch open northernendsouthwards,asharp 5.08 Asoneproceedsfromthemore enclosed appearance. trees, whichgivetheroadagreenand plots. Thegardensoftencontainmature occasionally, theenclosed,treedrear be glimpseddeepsidegardensand occasional crenellatedorpalisaded houses varyfromlowhedges,tothe 5.011 TheboundariesofStorey’sWay into thenewbuildings. foreground leadingfromthepavement and straightperpendicularpathsinthe at bothends ofthecentralstraight Storey’s Way. Theroadturnssharply installed alongtheentire lengthof 5.11 Speedreduction bumps are Madingley andHuntingdon Roads. Lady MargaretRoadwhichconnects Roads. Itistheonlyroutetowestof from bothMadingleyandHuntingdon road, particularlyasitisaccessed 5.10 Storey’sWayisamuch-used 5.1 Traffic tended, valuedprivatespaces. overall senseisoneofpersonalised,well- 5.013 InthisConservationArea,the tree planting,bothnewandestablished. the roadbyuseofhedgerowsand their buildingsandassimilatetheminto have attemptedtosoftentheimpactof 5.012 FitzwilliamandTrinityHallColleges be seen. domestically plantedreargardensmay spaces betweenthem;throughwhich of thehousesaredetached,there or woodengates.Becausethemajority fence, oftenwithtraditionalwroughtiron of NorthWestCambridgegrows. over thecomingyearsaspopulation road arelikelytoincreaseconsiderably bicycles, usingStorey’sWayasathrough 5.12 Thevolumesoftraffic,especially or destroyed. been knockedoutofverticalalignment numerous occasionsandsomehave to pass.Thebollardshavebeenhiton will onlyallowlightandnarrowvehicles that formaverynarrowpinch-point collection ofkerbs,islandsandbollards towards HuntingdonRoad,therearea section, and,whereitturnsnorthwards 15 Storey’s Way Conservation Area Appraisal 48 Storey’s Way - Grade II* Listed Building and Grade II Historic Park and Garden pprai s al A rea A on s ervation C

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Wychfield - Student Accommodation 16 for Trinity Hall 6 . Architectural Overview

6.01 Storey’s Way is particularly 6.12 No.30 is a listed Arts & Crafts house, been upgraded and provide pleasant pprai s al characterised by the regularity of its and Nos. 25 Storey’s Way, and Nos. 141, graduate family accommodation.

plots, which were developed over a 143 and 145 Huntingdon Road are all A comparatively short space of time and Buildings of Local Interest. These are 6.24 The main house at No. 38,

laid down mainly according to the described in detail in the Appendix 1. owned by Churchill College and rea original Conditions of Sale. leased by AECOM as offices until

6.2 Storey’s Way cul-de-sac and Wolfson September 2017, is due to be used A 6.02 There is a mild variation between Flats as postgraduate accommodation. the various groups of houses along the The ugly office buildings behind street, but most properties are large, 6.21 The short section of road extends 38 are due to be demolished and detached houses, built around World west from the width restriction bollards. replaced with postgraduate student War I and during the inter-war period. 6.22 There are two Buildings of Local accommodation blocks. These blocks Interest in this stretch of road, Nos 34 have been designed by the architect 6.1 Storey’s Way North (includes 137-145 and 44, commercial offices and some of the adjacent Churchill College Huntingdon Road) college buildings. postgraduate flats, Broers, Bondi and Hawthorne Houses, to be in sympathy on s ervation

6.10 This area contains mostly two-storey 6.23 In 2001-2 three graduate with them. C detached houses. accommodation blocks, Broers House, Bondi Houses and Hawthorne House, 6.25 More recently, two large family ay 6.11 The first houses were built in 1912, were built by Churchill College in the houses have been built (numbers 32A with the majority being built before 1930 grounds of Whittingehame Lodge, a and 32B) in the garden no. 34. These W

and a few from the post-war period. The Building of Local Interest. They are in are contemporary interpretations of the s houses are characterised by a continuity a style that endeavours to bridge the Arts and Crafts style. They are largely ’ of style of the 1920s but with a wealth transition between the 1960s original tucked away from general view but do of variation in roofs, gables, decorative college building and the Arts and have some impact on the character timbering, tile detail, windows, porches Crafts houses nearby. These blocks won of the adjacent Burial Ground and will and brick or render finishes. A few are both an East of England RIBA Award be visible to pedestrians and cyclists torey S semi-detached. All have good gardens and a David Urwin Award in 2002. travelling into the area along the and off-street parking. Large hedges The rather austere brick building, The new cycleway from the North West and some huge trees and shrubs Wolfson Flats which were built in 1968 Cambridge site. contribute to the general verdant and by David Roberts, is sited around a semi-rural feel. central courtyard. These have recently 17 6.3 Storey’s Way – East-West Section with a broad gravel carriage path leading Nos. 61, 63, 76 towards the detached traditional houses beyond. 6.31 This section of Storey’s Way, which lies opposite the Trinity Hall playing 6.34 No. 74, Atholl Lodge, the Fitzwilliam fields and some imposing new College College’s Masters Lodge, was built in pprai s al buildings, contains the largest and 1931. This is a brick, pebbledash and most attractive detached houses in the stone house with an impressive tower. A road. All the houses have front gardens It stands in a prominent position on the with off-street parking. Beech hedges, bend in the road.

rea some very tall trees and wooden fences border these gardens. 6.35 Nos. 63 and 76 are both Listed A Buildings, and form a grand entrance 6.32 The houses were built from 1912, into Storey’s Way. A very old yew hedge with the majority constructed during with a ‘cut out entrance’ surrounds No. the 1920s, plus a few more modern 76. properties. There are several Baillie Scott houses in the ‘Arts and Crafts’ style 6.4. All Souls Lane & Ascension Parish located at the west end of the road. Burial Ground No. 48, a grade II* Listed Building with a garden listed as grade II on Historic 6.37 This area extends from Huntingdon on s ervation England’s Register of Historic Parks and Road to the back of the garden at No. C

Gardens, is the most renowned. No.52 34 Storey’s Way. is a Building of Local Interest. The rest

ay of the houses have a uniformity of style 6.38 There are two buildings in the of the 1920s with plenty of interesting cemetery: the former sexton’s cottage

W variations in detail, blending in with the at the entrance, and the former Chapel s northerly section of the road. of All Souls at the heart of the original ’ cemetery. The chapel is now the 6.33 Large College buildings dominate workshop of the well-known lettering the east end. Fitzwilliam College now artist, Eric Marland, some of whose

torey has its main entrance on Storey’s Way, work can be found in the cemetery.

S with an award winning new three-storey The chapel building, a Building of Local building fronted by a large cycle storage Interest, is a fine example of a traditional area. Attempts are being made to hide nineteenth century design found in Former Chapel of All Souls this area by planting. Alongside this many cemeteries of the period. 18 building is an avenue of lime trees, with 7 . Trees, Landscape and Open Spaces pprai s al 7.01 Storey’s Way is a fine suburban road 7.05 Trinity Hall’s playing field is the only architect M H Baillie-Scott designed

of distinct, but complex character. The noticeable open space; views across not just the building, but the fittings A landscape and open spaces contribute it to Huntingdon Road give dimension and fixtures therein and the layout and significantly to the character of the area. and scale to the area. The periphery of planting of the front and back gardens. the playing field is planted, all of these The front garden has a formal layout rea 7.02 Generally, the collegiate sections trees are important to the area. The with clipped yews set in grass with gravel A have a more open aspect, for their semi-mature planting to Storey’s Way is paths. Like the architecture, it is an courtyards are set back from the road. beginning to enclose the street and the interesting composition of asymmetrical For the most part, the Colleges have mature trees on the northern boundary symmetry. The rear garden shares these used mature trees to soften the impact can be viewed over the rooftops of the characteristics, but some of the planting of their buildings upon the street. The houses on the northern section of the has been lost, though the pergola and architecture is glimpsed through tree dogleg. Whilst the College has secured a central feature survive. The garden to canopies across open space, as at the new generation of trees on the northern No. 48 is grade II on Historic England’s Lime Avenue to The Grove, Trinity Hall’s and southern boundaries, recent felling Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

sports pavilion, and Wychfield’s 20th around the pavilion has left it exposed on s ervation century hostels. and this backcloth of trees should 7.08 From the street, the appearance C

be renewed, as should the western is one of small, medium and tall trees 7.03 The role of trees in this respect is boundary. in both front and back gardens, under important and should be maintained planted with shrubs. It is often possible ay and renewed. Murray Edwards, 7.06 For the rest, the character of the to glimpse the canopies of the tall trees

Fitzwilliam and Trinity Hall have area comprises distinguished large over the roofline. This is important, as W s

attempted to soften the impact of their properties set well back from the road, it gives the area maturity, depth and ’ most recent buildings and assimilate in gardens which complement the space and links it to the surrounding them into the townscape by the use dwellings by their size and planting. The area. The more successful gardens of hedgerows and robust boundary gardens are mature, with the boundary have been designed to relate to the

treatment, retaining existing mature trees positively marked at the back of the house, rather than presenting a screen torey

and planting new landscaping. pavement, and planted with trees and of vegetation to the road. The planting S shrubs. for the most part is typical of an English Former Chapel of All Souls 7.04 These elements are typical of the garden, there are instances of more residential area and are crucial for 7.07 The garden of No. 48 is of particular exotic choices, but these should not be creating its particular character. merit and historical significance; the encouraged. 19 7.09 Trees line both sides of the road with a lawn and ‘wild garden’ beyond. for most of its length, their canopies Some newly planted gardens reflect this overhang the pavement and philosophy. However, where the front carriageway to frame the views and boundary has been removed (as at nos. soften the street-scene. The large trees 58 and 61), the open frontage is to the fulfil this function for the most part and detriment of the street scene. pprai s al they are planted at sufficiently close intervals for the theme to carry through. 7.12 Plants were carefully chosen and A So the connections begin with the planted in natural groupings to create beeches at No. 139 (the Fitzwilliam unity and beauty. The underlying design

rea College student accommodation) and was carefully planned, but the garden No. 141 Huntingdon Road, and are appeared as a fine combination of A carried through the length of the road plants, noted for their foliage and by mature lime, horse chestnut, pine, texture, with flowers providing a beech and silver birch trees. The under- continuous display of carefully crafted storey of small/medium trees is, in its own colour. The garden was to provide a way, as significant as the big trees, for perfect setting for the house and the it contributes to the sense of enclosure house was to embellish the garden. and suburbia. Whilst new planting can Some of the paths, fences and features renew the ambience of the street laid out in the gardens also survive: relatively quickly compared to replacing typically they used fine building materials on s ervation a mature forest tree, it is important to and traditional crafts.

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smaller but valuable trees. 7.13 Some trees have Tree Preservation

ay Orders (TPO’s) (see Townscape Analysis 7.1 The Gardens Map) such as the row of lime trees on

W the left hand side of the approach to the s 7.11 The influence of the Arts & Crafts Ascension Burial Ground in All Souls Lane, ’ Movement is still recognisable. Many which are well cared for and maintained Roadside Trees in Storey’s Way of the gardens have a clearly defined by the Church of England. There is boundary, which encloses the garden. probably a case for further orders on

torey Yew and beech hedges are common, some of the more interesting trees in the

S as are close-boarded or slatted, low, northerly section – many in the original wooden fences. In some, remnants conservation area already have TPO’s. of the original garden layout survive; These additional trees are identified as the garden close to the house would Trees of Significance (Appendix II) 20 have been laid out in a formal design 8 . Key Characteristics of the Area pprai s al A rea A on s ervation C

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8.01 The preceding pages describe 8.03 Buildings pitched red tile roofs, canted bays, wide

the essential characteristics of the • ‘Human scale’ houses, mainly of 2 frontages, recessed porches W s

Storey’s Way Conservation Area. These storeys • A lively skyline with chimneys ’ Roadside Trees in Storey’s Way combine to give the area its sense of • Houses set back from the street and gables with timber decoration, place as a whole. Some key elements with large front and rear gardens, modillioned eaves are fundamental to this and can be behind hedges, low brick boundary walls • Consistent materials – brick or

summarised as follows: or fences render finishes, red tile roofs, panelled torey

• Balanced building designs, oak doors, [ranging from two to six S 8.02 Uses including Arts & Crafts, picturesque and panels, metal lights • A predominantly residential cottage orne, neo-Georgian styles • A range of decorative details, area, with some new collegiate student • A strong rhythm – due to including lintels, windows [dormer or accommodation in central Storey’s Way prominent capped chimneys, steep sash], stained glass lights or fanlights of 21 elaborate design, doors with carved rails and moulded muntins.

8.04 Streets and Spaces • Primary road with strong linear form • Secondary, secluded pathway to pprai s al Ascension Parish Burial Ground • Wide building frontages with mature A planted front and rear gardens • Off-street parking with large garages,

rea mostly in keeping with character of house • One large open space, the Ascension A Parish Burial Ground, and large collegiate space of Trinity Hall sports ground • A large number of visually important trees and shrubs, both within and on the edge of the area, many of which are in gardens • Consistent low scale, planted hedges and continuous fencing, creating a sense of enclosure on s ervation 8.05 The key individual trees are: C

• 139 Huntingdon Road: beech, walnut. • 141 Huntingdon Road: beech,birch.

ay • The Cedar at the junction of Madingley Road and Storey’s Way has the ability to

W become a prominent feature after 50 years. s ’ 8.06 The key groups of trees are: • Wychfield • The Grove

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8.07 Abutting Conservation Area: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s • Madingley Road frontage of Churchill Grave Stone, Acen- 22 College. sion Burial Ground 9 . Issues pprai s al 9.01 The Storey’s Way Conservation Area be eroded. Whilst the Local Planning

is notable for its fine detached family Authority cannot require an owner to A houses with their spacious gardens replace a tree felled under a Section (as defined by the Trustees of Storey’s 211 Notice in a conservation area, rea Charity). every encouragement should be given

to plant suitable replacement (s). If A 9.02 The main issue for this Conservation necessary, such powers as exist under Area is provided by the threat of the Town & Country Planning Act, 1990, redevelopment to these houses on their should be used to protect trees with a large plots. Tree Preservation Order.

9.03 Despite this perceived threat, most 9.06 The area around Storey’s Way is of the properties in the Storey’s Way area under considerable pressure for re- remain largely in their original condition, development and collegiate expansion, with their distinctive architectural details for example land adjacent to existing on s ervation intact. Churchill College buildings. The unique C

character could be easily eroded if 9.04 The relationship of landscape to any new building fails to recognise the ay built form is an important characteristic contribution the trees, open spaces and 74 Storey’s Way of the Conservation Area and needs to gardens make to the area. be fully considered in the determination W

9.12 The special provision for historic s of any proposals for new or more 9.07 Road signage needs to take into buildings (both listed and in the ’ intensive development. account the sensitive Conservation Area Conservation Area) under Part L of the context. Building Regulations, offer scope for 9.05 Storey’s Way, like much of flexibility in applying Building Regulation Cambridge, is experiencing change. 9.1 Works to Existing Buildings requirements which might otherwise torey Many of the trees (of all sizes) are at harm the character of such buildings. S maturity, or approaching this stage. If 9.11 The existing buildings in Storey’s the trees are not replaced as they fail, Way are vulnerable to changes, such the character of the road will change as alterations to windows, and works to and its unique bosky environment will improve energy efficiency. 23 10. Summary pprai s al A 10.01 This appraisal has sought to identify what is special and rea unique about the Storey’s Way Conservation Area. A

10.02 It is apparent that both components of the Conserva- tion Area, the natural and built, can only exist in harmony if both elements are considered to be of equal importance and treat- ed accordingly.

on s ervation 10.03 Thus it is to be hoped that the contents of this document, C

which has tried to highlight the 36A and 36B Storey’s Way importance of all the natural ay and manmade features that are the essential components of

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’ in any aspect of development of the Conservation Area in the future. torey S

24 Appendix I: Listed Buildings and Buildings of Local Interest M.H. Baillie Scott (properties denoted pitched red tile roofs continue down to modillioned eaves. The central portion pprai s al by*) ground floor level in places. There are of the house projects with a rectangular A dormer windows in the front roof space. fanlight over the projected doorway and This architect, whose career spanned The brick chimneys have caps. There a scrolled pediment. Five oval windows the years from 1892 to 1939, designed is a recently built oak porch, which is are symmetrically arranged about the rea five buildings in Storey’s Way. His interest in keeping with the house, and a small façade. was in the small, domestic scale house, cycle shed. A with an emphasis on comfort, economy and beauty. He planned his houses with 48 Storey’s Way (1912-13)* Grade II* 56 Storey’s Way (1923)* Grade II their attendant gardens as one unit, This house is probably the most important This house is built in the picturesque with open and spacious rooms, intimate example of Baillie Scott’s work in cottage style. It has a steep pitched tiled alcoves, sunny verandahs, and an Cambridge. It is built in the style of a toof with leaded casement windows. The interesting texture of materials. 16th century Sussex farmhouse. The brick chimneys are capped. construction is brick with external render

29 Storey’s Way (1922)* Grade II and limewash. The steep pitched red tile 63 Storey’s Way (1912) Grade II on s ervation This house has a mansard roof with two roof sweeps down to the ground floor This house was designed in the ‘neo- C

hips, and dormer windows. There is a on the left hand side of the building. The Georgian’ style by T D Atkinson, and pair of French windows on the ground window frames are painted, with oak sills is built of yellow brick with rendered floor in the centre: these are flanked by and metal lights. The oak entrance door brick dressings, with a pantiled roof. This ay deep sash windows on either side. Each has three vertical studded panels with a roof has modillioned eaves beneath window group has wooden shutters. carved rail and moulded muntins, and a hipped roof. There are two hipped W s

The house has painted white brickwork, long iron strap hinges and latch. dormers fitted with two-light casements. ’ and typical brick Baillie Scott chimneys. To the side there is a ‘neo-Georgian’ The garden to no. 48 is on Historic There is a projecting rusticated and doorway with oval windows on either England’s Register of Parks and Gardens rendered centre bay, which contains the

side. as grade II. doorway. The lugged timber doorcase torey

contains a six-fielded panel door. Over S 30 Storey’s Way (1914)* Grade II 54 Storey’s Way (1922)* Grade II the door is a canted tripled horned sash This house has been built in cottage This brick two-storeyed house is built window with two windows of two panes, style, which has been faced with stucco, in the ‘neo-Georgian’ style, with and six of six panes. and hung tiles. The hipped, steep- brick chimneys, a hipped roof and 25 76 Storey’s Way (1913) Grade II 44 Storey’s Way (1913) 141 Huntingdon Road (1912, ‘Wayside’, A.A. Moberley designed this two-storeyed This two storeyed brick house with an Storey’s Way) house, another in the ‘neo-Georgian’ style. It attic floor was designed by London W.D.Collins built this house on a has a plain tile hipped roof, with four dormers architects, Messrs Dunnage & Hartman. corner plot on Huntingdon Road and fitted with two-light leaded casement The exterior is rough case with a brick Storey’s Way. It is an Arts & Crafts style windows. The windows to the front are horned plinth. The house has a tiled roof with a house, with colour washed, pebble pprai s al sashes, those on the ground floor having pair of projecting gabled bays, and a dashed elevations, and a hipped and gauged segmental skewback arches. central bay with a flat gable. There are gabled red tiled roof. The tall red/ A four hipped gabled dormers. The east brown chimneystacks have oversailing On an historical note, the philosopher Ludwig half-hipped gable has an oriel window decorative brick courses, and some of

rea Wittgenstein (1889-1951) lived here from the on a single timber console. the casement windows have leaded end of 1950 until his death on 29 April 1952 lights. A There is a half-timbered porch on the Buildings of Local Interest front elevation, and weather boarding 143 & 145 Huntingdon Road (1923) to the first floor at the rear. These are a symmetrical pair of semi- 25 Storey’s Way (1924) detached two storey houses, which are This house was designed by H C Hughes, and 52 Storey’s Way (1913) linked by garages. The elevations are is a single storeyed plastered brick property, Robert Bennett and Wilson Bidwell of pebble dashed and with red plain clay with a mansard roof, a late example of Letchworth designed this two storeyed tiled roofs. Each of the houses has two the ‘Cottage Orne’ style. There are two brick house. There are casement large square red brick chimney stacks. chimneystacks at either end of the ridged windows with modern glazing bars, and The recessed, open porches supported on s ervation roof. There are multi-paned casement lintels, which are formed from tiles, set on pebble dashed columns. There is a C

windows on the first floor. edge on. The entrance door on the projecting canted bay window with a ground floor is recessed, and consists of flat lead roof to each ground floor. The

ay 34 Storey’s Way (1923) panels with three window lights. rainwater goods are cast iron. This house was built for Professor F F Blackman,

W who designed the house himself. It is a Mortuary – Former Chapel of All Souls s large two storeyed property with a grand (c1875), 10 All Souls Lane ’ entrance porch, and symmetrical front with Richard Reynolds Rowe, who was bay windows. There is a hipped tiled roof with Diocesan Architect at about this time, brick chimneystacks and beneath, decorative possibly designed this chapel. The

torey pargetted walls and unusual drainpipes, building is characterised by trefoiled

S which are decorated with the date and side windows with plate tracery in letters ‘EFBFP’. There is a formal garden in front the east and west windows. There is a of the house, which is laid out with terraces, similarly designed sexton’s cottage/ stonewalls and paths, and beyond the house, gatehouse nearby. 26 a thatched summerhouse. Appendix II: Trees of Note pprai s al Odds pprai s al 139 Huntingdon Road copper beeach, walnut, silver birch, conifers A A 141 beech, birch 5 silver birch rea rea 15 lime A 19 yew, silver birch A 25 red horse chestnut, yew 27 lime, 3 silver birch trees, cherry in front of house 29 dawn redwood, Norway maple cultivar ‘Drummondii’, golden yew, yew, rowan, conifers 31 crab apple, hawthorn, hazel Wychfield sportsfield, north boundary, mature trees incl beech important from road and over rooftops of northern dog-leg on s ervation Wychfield mix of new planting to road boundary, crab apple, cherry, rowan, birch, hawthorn on s ervation Wychfield beech by pavilion on sports field C C

Wychfield established sycamore and whitebeam trees to road frontage forward of new building ay Wychfield group of beech, oak, horse chestnut, sycamore around Wychfield, 1960’s and 1990’s hostels ay Fitzwilliam College newly planted copper beech in front of new building W Fitzwilliam College lime avenue to The Grove W s s ’ Murray Edwards Dalecarlica silver birch trees planted formally at gateway to college: sycamore beside Beaufort ’ House 63 lime: pollarded lime trees: ash torey torey S Evens S 4 young whitebeams 27 28 Storey’s Way Conservation Area Appraisal Churchill College posite TheCrescent Churchill College:op 76 Atholl House,74 72 70 66 64 62 60 58 56 50 48 30 28 26 18 16 14 12 8 - alder treesinhighway 5 silverbirchtrees yew hedge Purple leavedcherry walnut, sycamore cherry, rowan,holly plum stock silver birch,beech,oak,rowan willow,fir young beech,crabapple,rowan 2 purpleleafcherryformalplantinginfrontofhouse yew formalplantingofBaillie-Scotthouse purple leafcrabapple yew formalplantingofBaillie-Scotthouse new planting, beech horse chestnut,copperbeech conifers crab apple,yew ash magnolia, crabapple horse chestnut n i

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