HERITAGE STATEMENT In respect of: Four new dwellings At: SITE TO REAR OF 24-28 ENDLESS STREET, SALISBURY On behalf of: Ludlow Developments November 2016 ELAINE MILTON HERITAGE & PLANNING t: 07979 942042 e: [email protected] w: www.emhp.co.uk 0 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................2 2.0 HERITAGE DESIGNATIONS .....................................................................3 3.0 DESCRIPTION .................................................................................4 4.0 HISTORY .............................................................................................9 5.0 ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ........................................................11 6.0 PROPOSALS ................................................................................13 7.0 POLICY CONTEXT ................................................................................14 8.0 HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ........................................................16 9.0 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................17 SOURCES ............................................................................................18 APPENDIX 1: Site location plan identifying listed buildings and townscape features LIST OF FIGURES Fig.1: View from the north-east on Rollestone Street Fig.2: Boundary wall on Rollestone Street Fig.3: Door opening within front boundary wall Fig.4: Modern garage at southern end of Rollestone Street frontage Fig.5: Boundary wall on south side of site Fig.6: Boundary wall on north side of site Fig.7: View from within site looking to backs of properties on Endless Street Fig.8: View from within site looking east towards houses on Rollestone Street Fig.9: View from within site looking south-west to backs of properties on Endless Street Fig.10: Speed’s map of 1611 Fig.11: First edition County Series map of 1881 COPYRIGHT: The contents of this statement must not be copied or replicated in part or in whole without the express written consent of Elaine Milton Heritage & Planning 1 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury 1.0 Introduction 1.1 This heritage statement accompanies an application for planning permission for the construction of four dwellings on a vacant site to the rear of 24-28 Endless Street. 1.2 The site, which is primarily used for car parking for the County Coroner’s Court on Endless Street is located off the west side of Rollestone Street. The site was acquired by Ludlow Developments in conjunction with 24 Endless Street, which although adjoining the site is a discrete parcel of land that is subject to separate applications for planning permission and listed building consent. 1.3 The report describes the heritage significance of the site and provides an assessment of the impact of the proposals in accordance with the requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework (the NPPF, March 2012) and in order to meet the council’s local validation checklist for applications affecting listed buildings and conservation areas. A number of site surveys were carried out for the assessment throughout 2016. 1.4 Information on the history of the site has been drawn from a number of sources, including historical map regression and the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for England (RCHME) volume for Salisbury. A list of the sources used is presented on p18. 2 2.0 Heritage Designations 2.1 The site is located within the Salisbury City Conservation Area, which was formed from an amalgamation of six previously designated conservation areas on 7 February 1990, and the boundaries of which have been recently amended by the local planning authority. The conservation area covers the historic core of the city including the medieval chequers, viz. the grid pattern layout upon which the city was developed in the medieval period. The site is located within Gore’s Chequer within the northern part of the grid. 2.2 There are a number of listed buildings surrounding the site including the boundary wall fronting onto Rollestone Street, which was added to the statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest at Grade II on 12 October 1972. It is therefore deemed by Historic England to be a heritage asset of special interest and of national importance. The listing description for the wall reads as follows: ‘No 26 has a long garden running back to Rollestone Street qv and belonging former C16 house on site. The wall to Rollestone Street has documented construction of August 1600. Approximately 7 ft high of brick and flint, later splayed brick upper part. Splayed arched doorway with remains of old ledged, studded door.’ 2.3 The listing for the wall notes it contributes to the group value of 16-26 (even) Endless Street. 2.4 The other listed buildings in and around the site are identified on the plan presented in Appendix 1. 3 3.0 Description 3.1 The site comprises an open piece of ground on the west side of Rollestone Street, just south of the junction with Bedwin Street. It is bounded on the street frontage by the Grade II listed boundary wall mentioned in paragraph 2.2 above. Fig.1 View from the north-east on Rollestone Street 3.2 The approximately 2m high boundary wall is made up of (from left to right): an approximately 1.5m section of brick walling (in English bond) on a brick base with brick on edge and splayed brickwork capping; modern brick gate piers; an approximately 2m wide vehicular entrance with wrought iron gates; a modern brick pier; an approximately 2m length of flint with brick on edge and splayed brickwork capping; approximately 6m of brick walling (in English bond) on a brick base; a stone four-centred arched door opening with a timber studded door and mid-late 20th century brickwork on top, rising above the height of the wall; remaining stretch of brick walling (in English bond) on a brick base. 4 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury Fig.2 Boundary wall on Rollestone Street (note the unattractive grey roof and masts of the BT building in the background to the right of the shot) Fig.3 Door opening within front boundary wall 3.3 Attached to the south side of the boundary wall is a modern garage with a mono- pitch roof. 5 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury Fig.4 Modern garage at southern end of Rollestone Street frontage 3.4 The boundary wall returns around the back of the garage along the south side of the site where it is formed in stone, brick and flint. It contains a stone four-centred arched bricked up doorway. Fig.5 Boundary wall on south side of site 6 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury 3.5 The northern boundary of the site is made up of Flemish bond brick walling although a section is broken up by the rubble stone and flint wall from the rear projection of 22 Bedwin Street. Fig.6 Boundary wall on north side of site 3.6 The site itself is mainly laid to tarmac and there is a low-level of car parking associated with the County Coroner’s Court. Fig.7 View from within site looking to backs of properties on Endless Street 7 Heritage Statement – Site to rear of 24-28 Endless Street, Salisbury 3.7 The buildings surrounding the site are of a mix of types and of varying scales. These are predominantly in residential use. Most are two or two-and-a-half storey and are without exception set back-of-pavement. Building materials are red brick or stucco. The roofs are varied – gables pediments, parapets and hips – and are mostly steeply pitched with natural slate or plain clay tiles. Fig.8 View from within site looking east towards houses on Rollestone Street Fig.9 View from within site looking south-west to backs of properties on Endless Street 8 4.0 History 4.1 Comprehensive histories of Salisbury have been produced previously, including Crittal (1962) and Chandler (1983). Information from these sources, historic mapping and the council’s extensive urban survey for Salisbury (2004) has been drawn upon below. 4.2 New Sarum was founded with the cathedral and received its first charter in 1227. By the 14th century all the main streets of Salisbury were established including the grid pattern of chequers, and the town extended from the river in the south and west to the line of the Rampart Road in the east. 4.3 From the 13th to the 16th centuries Salisbury served as a trading centre for wool and in the 14th century it was at the heart of the cloth trade. Towards the end of the 14th century, it was the 6th largest of English provincial towns in terms of the number of taxpayers. 4.4 According to Chandler, Endless Street appears to have ended at the edge of the city and is so named because it was built before the city defences had been planned. In medieval times it was a major route into and out of the city and was lined with properties. By contrast, the Bedwin Street frontage to the north of the site was undeveloped and the site itself was probably associated with the properties on Endless Street. 4.5 According to the extensive urban survey for Salisbury (2004) a house existed within the centre of Gore’s Chequer in the 16th century. Access to this might have been via the four-centred arched doorway within the south boundary wall of the site. 4.6 The stone, flint and brick garden walls bounding the east side (Rollestone Street) and south side of the site are understood to date from c1600; the brick above the coping is probably 18th century with alterations and renewed brickwork of 1975. 4.7 The Flemish bond red brick north boundary wall (rear of Bedwin Street) is 18th century, and incorporates the 16th century rubble stone and flint rear projecting range of 22 Bedwin Street.