Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment in Advance of the Proposed development of Land at Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire February 2018 Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment in Advance of the Proposed development of land at Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Report for Nadim Khatter Date of Report: 20th February 2018 SWAT ARCHAEOLOGY Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company School Farm Oast, Graveney Road Faversham, Kent ME13 8UP Tel; 01795 532548 or 07885 700 112 www.swatarchaeology.co.uk Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Project Background ......................................................................................... 4 1.2 The Site ............................................................................................................ 4 1.3 The Proposed Development............................................................................ 4 1.4 Project Constraints .......................................................................................... 5 1.5 Scope of Document ......................................................................................... 5 2 PLANNING BACKGROUND .................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Introduction..................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Heritage Assets ................................................................................................ 5 2.3 National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) .................................................. 6 2.4 Regional Policies .............................................................................................. 9 3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................................... 13 3.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Desk-Based Assessment – Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (2017) ... 13 4 METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 14 4.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 14 4.2 Designated Heritage Assets........................................................................... 14 4.3 Sources .......................................................................................................... 16 5 ARCHAOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT ........................................................ 17 5.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 17 5.2 Designated Heritage Assets........................................................................... 18 5.3 Previous Archaeological Works ..................................................................... 19 5.4 Archaeological and Historical Narrative ........................................................ 24 5.5 Cartographic Sources and Map Regression .................................................. 26 5.6 Aerial Photographs ........................................................................................ 28 5.7 Walkover Survey ........................................................................................... 29 5.8 Summary of Potential .................................................................................... 30 6 IMPACT ASSESSMENT ...................................................................................................... 33 6.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 33 6.2 Historic Impacts ............................................................................................. 34 6.3 Summary of Impacts ..................................................................................... 34 7 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MITIGATION ...................................................................................... 34 7.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 34 8 OTHER CONSIDERATION .................................................................................................. 35 8.1 Archive ........................................................................................................... 35 8.2 Reliability/Limitations of Sources .................................................................. 35 8.3 Copyright ....................................................................................................... 35 9 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................... 36 9.1 Bibliographic .................................................................................................. 36 9.2 Websites ........................................................................................................ 36 10 APPENDIX 1 – HCC HER Data (see Figures 7-10) ............. Error! Bookmark not defined. i Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment List of Plates Plate 1. Aerial photograph from 1999 Plate 2. Aerial photograph from 2005 Plate 3. Aerial photograph from 2008 Plate 4. Aerial photograph from 2017 Plate 5. View of Site (looking North) Plate 6. View of Site (looking South) Plate 7. View of Site (looking East) Plate 8. View of Site (looking West) List of Figures Fig.1 Site location map and site Location plan 1:10000 Fig 2: Development in relation to OS Plan Fig.3 Historic mapping OS 1:2,500 1896 Fig.4 Historic mapping OS 1:2,500 1909 Fig.5 Historic mapping OS 1:2,500 1970 Fig.6 Historic mapping OS 1:2,500 1994 Fig.7 HCCHER - Historic Buildings Fig.8 HCCHER - Archaeology Fig.9 HCCHER - Historic Landscape types Fig. 10 HCCHER - Monuments ii Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment in Advance of the of the Proposed Development of Land at Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Summary SWAT Archaeology has been commissioned by Nadim Khatter to prepare an Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment in advance of the proposed development of Land at Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. This Desk Based Assessment is intended to explore and disseminate the known and potential heritage resource within the site and the surrounding area, and to assess the likely impacts of the development proposals on this resource. Based on this data the potential for archaeological sites either on or in the near vicinity of the proposed development can be summarized as: Prehistoric: low Iron Age: low Roman: low Anglo-Saxon: low Medieval: low Post-Medieval: High Modern: High This assessment has established that there is an archaeological interest within the site. This is defined as the potential for the presence of buried archaeological remains, relating to the Post Medieval and Modern periods. The planning application in relation to the proposed development at Black House Farm is likely that it would have an impact on any surviving archaeological remains at this farmstead site. The need for, scale, scope and nature of any further assessment and/or archaeological works has therefore been recommended and should be agreed through consultation with the statutory authorities. 3 Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project Background 1.1.1 Swale & Thames Survey Company (SWAT) was commissioned Nadim Khatter (the ‘Client), to carry out an archaeological desk-based assessment of the proposed development area (PDA) at Black House Farm, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire, centred on National Grid Reference (NGR) SU 460977 125491 (Fig 1). 1.1.2 This document will be used in support of planning applications associated with the proposed development. 1.2 The Site 1.2.1 The proposed site sits at an average height of circa 107.5 m AOD. The site is located on level ground in the courtyard area of Black House Farm. The PDA is situated at the end of a long drive, off a no-through lane, surrounded by farmland and National Trust woodland and it located within the South Downs National Park. The PDA is situated in the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, an area administered by the City of Winchester. The hamlet of Hinton Ampner lies 1.5 miles to the north of the PDA, with the village of Kilmeston, 1 mile west. The city of Winchester is 8.5 miles, north west (Fig 1). 1.2.2 The British Geological Society (BGS 1995) shows that the local geology consists of Newhaven Chalk. There is superficial deposit being a very narrow spur from the north in the form of poorly stratified clay, silt, sand and gravel as the PDA sits lower that the immediate surrounding area formed by hill wash and soil creep. No geotechnical information is available at this time, which would offer confirmation of the existing soil sequence and provide a basis from which archaeological horizons could be suggested. 1.3 The Proposed Development 1.3.1 The Planning Officer of Winchester City Council (WCC) has requested that an Archaeological Desktop Assessment be undertaken in advance of development, taking into account all known records of the site in order to gauge the potential of any