Great Brickhill Conservation Area GREAT BRICKHILL CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991 The village of Great Brickhill occupies a prominent hilltop site in the Brickhills Area of Attractive Landscape. Its high position affords magnificent panoramic views out across surrounding countryside towards the Chilterns and across the Ouzel valley towards the Vale of Aylesbury. GAL LEY LANE North Middle Lodge Manor Hill Cottage BM 118.63m Path (um) Sawpit Lane Trac k Manor Farm Lod gehill Cottages Trac k 157.0m Path (um) Path (um) The Moors Closefield 155.1m 131.0m Pond Trac k Path (um) Church Farm Trac k GALLEY LANEGALLEY Green End 137.1m Cottage St Mary ’s Church 155.9m BM Keepers Lodge 141.80m FA HOME Brickhill Manor 141.0mWar Meml LB Wells Playing Field Cottage Brambles Sewage Disposal Lane End Church Close Works Pr ior y LB Cottage Tennis 151.6m The Orchard Courts Tel E x Ha ll Cemete ry 144.4m GP HORSEPOND 157.5m Greenbank ROTTEN 16 Mas t ROW 140.7m High Ash C of E Rectory Farm Combined School LOWER UPPER WAY Appled ore Beechfield Re serv oi r (covered) Swimming Pool 4 WAY BM 16 1.97 m 161.7m Sm ithy Midsummer House Collects Pond Duncombe House G Spring BM 142.55m NAISBY DRIVE PENNYCU IK 141 .3m Homerst one POUND H ILL Wh ite Romany Knights El Sub Sta WARNERS CLOSE Me lw oo d Fieldview LB TC B Eastaff Cottage Pond Pond The Collects Rectory GP KNIGH TS Ivy House The Old R ed Lio n (PH) BM 14 2.72 m 140.7m CLOSE 139 .1m Holly House v The 144.8m Grang e Pineview CUFF LANE El BM Nether Sub St ockwood Sta Hollow House Red Height s The Play Green 130.5m Are a LANE Broomhill House IVY LANE DUCK END ST OKE Haines Farm GREEN Orchard H ouse HOLTS Fossey’s Yew Tree Ho use 139.7m Wyngates Wyngates Ca tt le ST OKE LA NE Grid 11 9. 1 m Farm Cottage The Ko pp ie 36 Roxburgh Not to a recognised scale Gable Path (um) House Cottage Sewag e Works Trac k © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Pon Aylesbury Vale District Council. Pond Ivy Lane Licence No 100019797 2008 The Old Farm Issues Farm 1.22m RH 1.22 m RH 1 Great Brickhil Conservation Area Trees feature prominently and extensively throughout and at either end of the village. Most prominent are those around Galley Lane at the northern end of the village, around the Grade II* Listed St. Mary’s Church, Brookhill Manor, Church Farm and Manor Farm Cottages. Despite the preponderance of trees and the existence of high brick and stone walls along both sides of Galley Lane and Church Lane, fine landscape views can still be seen north from Galley Lane and Little Brickhill Road, south and west from the cemetery in Church Lane and westward from the end of Church Lane past Rectory Farm across the Ouzel valley. The most notable buildings in this area are the rubble and limestone Church of St. Mary, the brick Rectory, (both of which occupy elevated sites relative to the road) and the brick Properties 56 Lower Way and The Castle. South from this point, past numerous fine trees, one arrives at the thatched cottage 28 Lower Way, at the junction of Lower Way and Rotten Row. This fine ‘L’ shaped cottage abuts its Lower Way road frontage, thereby maintaining the roads characteristic enclosure but is set back relative to Rotten Row, echoing its more open character, with a small Green and high, treed embankment opposite. Farther along Rotten Row and continuing up to Pound Hill and Green End development is more modern, but has not detracted from the character or appearance of the remaining older parts of the village. Fine views are afforded from the northern end of Green End and Home Farm Lane, towards Little Brickhill. Similarly fine views across the Ouzel valley are also afforded from Lower Way opposite The Duncombe Arms P.H. The southern end of the village is notable for the dramatic slopes in ground levels and the enclosure provided onto Ivy Lane, Stoke Lane and Heath Lane by the abutment of properties, hedgerow, walls and trees onto the roads. From the junction of Ivy Lane, Lower Way, Pound Hill and Heath Lane, between the Old Red Lion P.H. and The Lodge, the road falls away to both east and west along Heath Lane and Duck Lane to the east and Stoke Lane to the west. This drop in ground levels provides fine views across a sloping green towards Broomhill House, which is Grade II Listed and said to have been built in 1912 by Detmar Blow, and also, above properties in Duck End and Cuff lane towards Heath & Reach. At the far western end of Stoke Lane, beyond the Grade II Listed Fossey’s are further views to the north and west towards Stoke Hammond and Soulbury. September 2008 2.