Trumpington Conservation Area Appraisal October 2010 This publication has been produced by: Planning Cambridge City Council PO Box 700 PPRAISAL Cambridge A CB1 0JH Tel: 01223 457000 REA Can be downloaded from www.cambridge.gov.uk A Printed on recycled paper. Please recycle. ONSERVATION C RUMPINGTON T Copyright notice © Crown copyright and database right 2011. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019730. Contents 5.3 High Street (from Alpha Terrace 1 Introduction......................................1 PPRAISAL to the Toll House) ............................... 14 1.1 Aims and Objectives .......................1 A 5.4 Southern High Street to Shelford 1.2 Method............................................1 Road ................................................... 16 1.3 Location ..........................................1 5.5 Alpha Terrace ............................... 16 REA 2 The Planning Policy Context ..........2 5.6 Allen Court.................................... 17 2.1 Legislation.......................................2 5.7 Maris Lane to Grantchester A 2.2 National Policy ................................2 Road ................................................... 17 2.3 Regional Policy...............................3 5.8 Church Lane ................................. 20 2.4 Local Policy.....................................3 5.9 Hauxton Road............................... 21 3 Summary of Special Interest ..........4 6 Trees, Landscape and Open 3.1 Introduction .....................................4 Spaces ............................................... 22 3.2 General Character ..........................4 6.1 Open Space.................................. 23 3.3 Landscape Setting ..........................5 7 Key Characteristics of the Area ... 24 3.4 Historical Development...................5 7.1 Uses ............................................. 24 3.5 Archaeology....................................7 ONSERVATION 7.2 Buildings ....................................... 24 3.6 History of the Plant Breeding C 7.3 Streets and Spaces ...................... 25 Institute .................................................7 8 Issues ............................................. 26 4 Spatial Analysis ...............................8 8.1 Revised Conservation Area 4.1 The High Street, from Alpha Boundary ............................................ 27 Terrace to the War Memorial ................8 4.2 Alpha Terrace .................................8 9 Guidance ........................................ 29 4.3 High Street......................................9 10 Summary ...................................... 31 4.4 The High Street from Church Lane to Hauxton Road...................................9 11 Contact Details ............................ 32 4.5 Grantchester Road .......................10 RUMPINGTON Appendix 1: Listed Buildings and T 4.6 Church Lane .................................11 BLIs.................................................... 33 4.7 Maris Lane ....................................11 4.8 Traffic on the High Street..............11 Appendix 2: Trees of Note ............... 36 5 Architectural Overview..................13 Appendix 3: Maps............................. 38 5.1 Winchmore Drive ..........................13 5.2 Campbell Lane..............................13 TRUMPINGTON CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL PPRAISAL A REA A ONSERVATION 1 Introduction C 1.1 Aims and Objectives eleven designated Conservation Areas village and forms one of the major access within Cambridge. routes into Cambridge. This Character Appraisal seeks to define the special interest of Trumpington, and to 1.2 Method The area includes, among other features, provide detailed information about its two manor houses, St Mary and St Consultants Scott Wilson, working for spaces, buildings, landscape, and other Michaels Church, and cottages dating back Cambridge City Council, assessed the th features, both positive and negative. This to the 16 century. character of Trumpington and outlined Appraisal was subject to public Cambridge will undergo considerable measures to ensure the protection and RUMPINGTON consultation and was approved, by the growth over the next few years, with land in th improvement of the area in the future. T Environment Scrutiny Committee on 5 this area under pressure from October 2010. It will be a ‘material’ 1.3 Location development. consideration when the Council receives Trumpington is located 3 miles to the south applications for change within, or on the of Cambridge City Centre within a semi- edges of, the Conservation Area. rural setting on the urban edge. Trumpington was designated as a Trumpington High Street dissects the Conservation Area in 1969 and is one of 1 PPRAISAL A REA A ONSERVATION C 2 The Planning Policy Context improve the character of the area. The advocates that Local Plans should 2.1 Legislation siting, scale height, form, details and consider the qualities and local Section 69 of the Planning (Listed building materials will all need to be distinctiveness of the historic Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act carefully chosen. environment and how these can 1990 imposes a duty on Local Planning contribute to the development of the Authorities (LPAs) to designate as 2.2 National Policy spatial vision in the local development framework core strategy. Consideration RUMPINGTON Conservation Areas any ‘areas of special Planning Policy Statement 1 (PPS1): should also be made of how best to T architectural or historic interest the Delivering Sustainable Development character or appearance of which it is conserve individual, groups or types of (2005) outlines the Government’s desirable to preserve or enhance’. heritage assets that are most at risk of commitment to protecting and enhancing loss through neglect, decay or other The special character of Conservation the quality of the historic environment threats (paragraph HE3.4). Areas means that the control of (paragraph 17). development is stricter than in other Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for areas. Therefore new buildings and the the Historic Environment (PPS5) spaces around them must preserve or 2 2.3 Regional Policy Policy ENV6 of The East of England Plan states that Local Authorities should identify, protect, conserve and, where PPRAISAL appropriate, enhance the historic A environment of the region, its archaeology, historic buildings, places and landscapes. The historic city of REA Cambridge is identified as being A especially significant in the East of England. 2.4 Local Policy Cambridge Local Plan (July 2006) sets out the current policies and proposals for future development and land use to 2016. ONSERVATION C RUMPINGTON T 3 PPRAISAL A REA A ONSERVATION C 3 Summary of Special Interest More recent interest stems from the century houses under the ownership of 3.1 Introduction occupation of Anstey Hall and its grounds Trumpington Hall. by the Ministry of Agriculture. Their Trumpington is a ‘village’ within the City There are a total of 25 Listed Buildings pioneering work included the of Cambridge. Like many of the southern and 9 Building of Local Interest (BLIs) in development of new strains of potato, Cambridgeshire villages, Trumpington the Conservation Area. with the Maris Piper taking its name from RUMPINGTON grew up around the church, largely as an the lane on which the Hall stands. There are several attractive walls within T agricultural settlement. the area, for example, the brick and flint The Church of St Mary and St Michael, 3.2 General Character parkland wall, near Winchmore Drive, dates from about 1200, and was restored and the stone walls along Anstey Hall by Butterfield in 1876. A tomb with the The area is characterised by the grand Farm, the church and Anstey Hall. There famous brass effigy of Sir Roger de manor houses of Trumpington Hall and is also a good example of a crinkle Trumpington is the second oldest brass Anstey Hall and a mixture of smaller crankle wall at Trumpington Hall. in England and is dated 1277. buildings of different ages, including 19th 4 Mature woodland, including the There are views of the City, particularly Grantchester Plantation and along the the colleges, from the open farmland to River Cam, the pasture in front of Anstey the north and west of the Conservation Hall Farm barn, the wooded grounds of Area. the Church of St Mary and St Michael PPRAISAL and large mature trees dispersed 3.4 Historical Development A throughout the area, lessen the impression of ‘urbanity’ and create a The historical development of the area is semi-rural interface between the an important contributor to Trumpington’s REA countryside and the village. Individual sense of place. It manifests itself not just A trees within the gardens of private in the character of individual buildings, properties are important. but in the way they are laid out (the street pattern and building line), the mix of Many of the trees are subject to Tree building types, and in the landscape and Preservation Orders (TPOs). trees. The village’s history can be traced back beyond the Domesday Book. Certainly there were Norman Manors, one belonging to the Beaufores which was ONSERVATION 3.3 Landscape Setting the origin of what is today Anstey Hall. C Trumpington is surrounded by open Edmund Bacchus rebuilt the Hall agricultural fields to the west and partially probably in the late 16th century, and to the north and south. The village has elements of this house can still be found strong agricultural, as well as in the present building. Anthony horticultural, connections. Thompson