Heritage Statement Design and Access Statement PROJECT ‘Sevenways’ 1 College Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 9DZ Mr N Sheikh 16th April 2018 Revision C Sevenways, 1 College Road, Buxton CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 01 - HERITAGE STATEMENT 4 02 - HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT 21 03 - DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 28 04 - PLANNING POLICY STATEMENT 31 Sevenways, 1 College Road, Buxton INTRODUCTION This report has been prepared to accompany the The current owners bought ‘Sevenways’, application for planning listed building consent approximately 15 years ago. They were for the property known as ‘Sevenways’ 1 College passionate about owning a house designed by Road, Buxton. Parker and Unwin and they have researched and understood the significance of the architects and The proposals are for a change of use from the house. current single dwelling, previously used as a bed and breakfast, into 4 apartments. The proposals At the time of purchase, the house was in poor also enhance the Grade II listed building. condition following little maintenance since the conversion. Aside from the division of The house is a three storey semi-detached rooms and major changes, all woodwork and property, with cellar and was constructed in 1886. internal stone was covered by modern paint. The house was designed by Barry Parker and During maintenance they have sympathetically Raymond Unwin. Two architects of the Arts and removed these inappropriate finishes, such as Craft movement renowned for their work within the stone column to the hall. However the clients Litchfield Garden City and Hampstead Garden wish to return the house holistically to a more Suburb. sympathetic condition. The house is constructed of stone to the ground They have always had a long term plan to fully floor, side and rear elevations. The front elevation restore the house and ensure a sustainable is dominated by the projecting timber framed future. However as a small household, parts of first and roof storey (second floor). The windows the house remain unused for much of the time, are mixture of stone mullion, metal windows to the proposals will allow all parts of the house the front ground floor and the main side and rear to be in continuous use. They believe that the rooms. The first floors are a mixture of metal and proposals contained within this application meets timber windows. Five brick stack chimneys sit this aspiration. within the large and dominant tiled roof. The owners wish to replace the majority of the The property is located on College Road, at missing fireplaces. Which will be appropriate the intersection with Temple Road, overlooking to the character of the room; this will provide a the Pavilion Gardens. The house sits within the significant enhancement to the property. College Conservation Area. The proposed works predominantly are to the In 1988 consent was given to convert inside of the property and see a significant (documentation not seen) the property into a bed reduction in the ‘clutter’ of previous alterations and breakfast. The majority of the alterations, which took place during the previous which we understand were carried out during conversation. the conversion, remain in place. They were unsympathetically planned and executed. For Careful consideration has been given to the most example the many bathrooms have not only appropriate solution, minimising any impact. The subdivided all bedrooms, but also resulted in proposals also seek to restore the house to an many leaks and subsequent damage. Also the appropriate condition and were possible enhance maintenance during this period was often low the significance. quality and inappropriate; which is now starting to be detrimental to the fabric of the property. This document is split into four main sections: - Heritage Statement / Impact Assessment - Planning Policy Statement - Design and Assess Statement April 2018 Page 3 of 43 Sevenways, 1 College Road, Buxton 01 - HERITAGE STATEMENT INTRODUCTION LISTED BUILDING DESCRIPTION Sevenways, formally known as Farringford was The listing is for the pair of semi-detached houses; SEVEN WAYS (no.1) AND SOMERSBY (no. 3). constructed in 1895/96. It doesn’t appear on the 10 feet OS Map of 1878, but is shown on the List entry Number: 1259367 1898 OS Second Edition Map. Grade II The house is attributed to Barry Parker and Sir Date first listed: 23-Mar-1981 Raymond Unwin, two renown architects that were in partnership in Buxton from 1896. Although Pair of semi-detached houses. Pevsner attributed the houses to Parker, it is likely Uniwin was involved in the design, prior 1896. By Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings and to the formalisation of their partnership, as they timber-framing. Plain tile roof with 4 tall red brick stacks. lived together in Chesterfield prior to relocated to Buxton. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered plinth. Street front has stone ground floor with timber- framing above. Irregular 5-window front. Parker and Unwin went on to become the prominent planners of the Garden City No 1 has central recessed doorway with flat headed Tudor style door with moulded cornice, to right a Movement. stone bench and various mullion windows. To left at corner a stone canted bay window. Above jettied first floor has 5-light casement to left and to right a balcony with wooden balusters and set-back door Grade II listed, the house is one half of the pair and overlight. Above jettied 8-light oriel window with curved framing in gable. Left return has irregular of semi detached houses that Pevsner described fenestration and projecting 2 storey gabled wing. as an “interesting pair of houses”. The Buxton Conservation Appraisal in April 2007, identified No 3 has recessed doorway with flat headed Tudor style door with moulded cornice, flanked by stone the houses as ‘A series of highly individual Arts & mullion windows. Above a 4-light wooden casement window to left with balcony above and small 1878 - Ordinance Survey Crafts houses arguably of national importance set set-back gabled dormer with 3-light casement. To right a jettied gable with a 4-light mullion to left within generous gardens’. and a balcony to right with wooden baluster and door, above a jettied 5-light wooden oriel window and curved framing in gable. Right return has 3 irregularly spaced windows. To left a 2 storey gabled This section will assess the significance of wing with 4-light mullion windows to each floor. To right a square window and a 4-light mullion window Sevenways, both locally and Nationally, to beyond, similar arrangement above with further 4-light window in central gable. understand the value of the house in it’s present arrangement, but also the context locally and INTERIOR: much of the interior of No 1 (Seven Ways) survives intact. The dining room with corner nationally. fireplace has original copper canopy (but grate removed), and distinctive pillar, shaped to capital and chamfered and stopped to base, with fitted seats and book case: the polygonal corner further emphasised by a shallow arched “entrance”. Stairs of pierced splat balusters. The right-hand room retains an inglenook with painted brick arch, beams and “fire window”. Original doors with panels of diagonal boarding and original ironmongery survive. A dumb waiter (to left of entrance) has been removed. Somersby is reputed to retain its original hall fireplace and the stone staircase, some doors and cupboards and the sitting room inglenook arch. Barry Parker was articled to Faulkner Armitage and his influence is seen here in the use of Cheshire Revival studwork. 1898 - Ordinance Survey Second Edition April 2018 Page 4 of 43 Sevenways, 1 College Road, Buxton BARRY PARKER SIR RAYMOND UNWIN COLLABORATIVE WORK 1867-1947 1863-1940 In 1902 their first major commission was the By 1896 Unwin had joined Parker to form a design of a model industrial village, New partnership, they were close friends, half-cousins Born in Chesterfield to a bank manager father, Sir Raymond Unwin, Born in Yorkshire grew up Earswick, near York, for Joseph & Seebohm and brother-in-laws. Richard Barry Parker trained at T.C. Simmonds Oxford (where he heard lectures by Ruskin and Rowntree. Atelier of Art in Derby and the studio of George Morris) and returned northwards.1 Their early career is defined by this partnership. Faukner Armitage in Altrincham1, a northern Arts Parker and Unwin, in 1904 were retained to Unwin would work on the more practical side and Crafts architect with Studio in Altrincham, In may 1887, he took a job as an apprentice implement the design in plan and detail for of things while Parker on the more creative, Cheshire. engineer for Stavely iron & coal company near Letchworth.2 Park and Unwin’s successful master including the design if fixtures and fittings, as well chesterfield. Here he designed industrial buildings plan for the Garden City thrust them into the as being an accomplished artist. 1 In 1891, he joined his father in Buxton and and machinery and was also given the brief to limelight. designed three large houses in the town for him.2 construct housing for mine workers, albeit at During this early period they worked on private minimum possible cost, to bye law standards, In 1906, Unwin left Letchworth to work on residential commissions often for socially giving him first hand experience of the housing he Hampstead Garden Suburb. Barry Parker conscious professionals. Greenmoor, Buxton was would later strive to improve.2 remained in Letchworth becoming the sole there first commission for Parker’s parents. consulting architect to First Garden City Ltd.3 They jointly wrote ‘The Art of Building a Home’ Unwin published two influential books following (1901), of which documented their early his departure from Letchworth. ‘Town planning considerations and included many of the plates of and practice in 1909 and in 1912, ‘nothing gained sketches and photographs document Sevenways.