CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES CHURCH ROAD CONSERVATION AREA NO.85 Consultation Draft, November 2020 Note: Every effort has been made interest. Therefore, the omission of any process a more detailed and up to date to ensure the accuracy of this feature does not necessarily convey assessment of a particular site and its document but due to the complexity a lack of significance. The Council will context is undertaken. This may reveal of conservation areas, it would be continue to assess each development additional considerations relating to impossible to include every facet proposal on its own merits, on a character or appearance which may be CHURCH ROAD contributing to the area’s special site-specific basis. As part of this of relevance to a particular case. 1 CONSERVATION AREA No.85 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Introduction PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT The principal aims of conservation • Raise public interest and This document has been area appraisals are to: awareness of the special produced using the guidance set character of their area; out by Historic England in the 2019 • Describe the historic and publication titled Understanding architectural character and • Identify the positive features Place: Conservation Area appearance of the area which should be conserved, Designation, Appraisal and which will assist applicants in as well as negative features Management, Historic England making successful planning which indicate scope for future Advice Note 1 (Second Edition). applications and decision enhancements. makers in assessing planning This document will be a material applications; consideration when assessing planning applications. WHAT IS A BUILDINGS OF CONSERVATION AREA CONSERVATION AREA? TOWNSCAPE MERIT APPRAISAL The statutory definition of a Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) A conservation area appraisal aims conservation area is an ‘area of are buildings, groups of buildings or to describe the special historic and special architectural or historic structures of historic or architectural architectural character of an area. interest, the character or interest, which are locally listed A conservation area’s character appearance of which it is desirable due to their considerable local is defined by a combination of to preserve or enhance’. The power importance. The policy, as outlined elements such as architecture, uses, to designate conservation areas is in the Council’s Local Plan, sets materials and detailing as well as the given to local authorities through out a presumption against the relationship between buildings and the Planning (Listed Buildings and demolition of BTMs unless structural their settings. Conservations Areas) Act, 1990 evidence has been submitted by Many other elements contribute to (Sections 69 to 78). the applicant, and independently character and appearance such as verified at the cost of the applicant. Once designated, proposals within a the placement of buildings within conservation area become subject Locally specific guidance on their plots; views and vistas; the to local conservation policies set design and character is set out relationship between the street and out in Chapter 4 of the Council’s in the Council’s Buildings of the buildings and the presence of Local Plan and national policies Townscape Merit Supplementary trees and green space. outlined in part 12 of the National Planning Document (2015), which The conservation area appraisal Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). applicants are expected to follow is an evidence base rather than Our overarching duty which is set for any alterations and extensions a planning policy document. out in the Act is to preserve and/or to existing BTMs, or for any This means that it is the main enhance the historic or architectural replacement structures. document for recording what is of character or appearance of the principal importance in terms of conservation area. character and appearance of each conservation area. However, the relevant policies are contained within the Borough’s Local Plan, specifically Chapter 4 ‘Local Character and Design’. Refer to the Council’s website for the latest Local Plan. CHURCH ROAD 2 CONSERVATION AREA No.85 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES CONSERVATION AREAS CA85 BOROUGH BOUNDARY SCALE 1:40,000 0KM ¼ ½ ¾ 0MILES ¼ ½ Map showing Richmond Conservation Areas. Conservation Area 85, Church Road, highlighted. 1. Barnes Green 23. Ham House 45. Strawberry Vale 67. Parkleys Estate (Ham) 2. Kew Green 24. Twickenham Park 46. Rosecroft Gardens 68. Holmesdale Avenue 3. Richmond Green 25. Castelnau 47. Queens Road (Twickenham) 69. Sheen Common Drive 4. Richmond Riverside 26. The Grove 48. Amyand Park Road 70. Sheen Lane (Mortlake) 5. Richmond Hill 27. Teddington Lock 49. Crown Road 71. Fieldend (Twickenham) 6. Petersham 28. Broom Water 50. Sheendale Road 72. Hamilton Road 7. Ham Common 29. Belmont Road 51. Mortlake Green 73. Burlington Avenue and West 8. Twickenham Riverside 30. St Matthias 52. East Sheen Avenue Park Road 9. Twickenham Green 31. Sheen Road 53. White Hart Lane 74. Defoe and Ruskin Avenue 10. Trafalgar Road 32. Barnes Common 54. Waldegrave Park 75. Oaklands Estate 11. Hampton Court Green 33. Mortlake 55. Kew Road 76. Madrid Road 12. Hampton Village 34. Model Cottages 56. Beresford Avenue 77. Bushy Park Gardens 13. Christ Church Road 35. Queens Road (Mortlake) 57. Old Deer Park 78. Cole Park Road 14. Mill Hill 36. Kew Foot Road 58. Platt’s Eyot 79. Cowley Road 15. Kew Gardens 37. High Street (Teddington) 59. Normansfield 80. King Edward’s Grove 16. Thorne Passage 38. Hight Street (Hampton Hill) 60. Hampton Court Park 81. Royal Road 17. Central Richmond 39. Blackmore’s Grove 61. Bushy Park 82. St James’s Avenue 18. Hampton Wick 40. Pope’s Avenue 62. Richmond Park 83. Wick Road 19. St Margarets 41. Joanna Southcott Chapel 63. RoyaI Botanic Gardens 84. Broad Street 20. Lawn Crescent 42. Mays Road 64. Sheen Lane (East Sheen) 85. Church Road 21. Cambridge Park 43. Strawberry Hill Road 65. Hanworth Road (Hampton) 22. Park Road (Teddington) 44. Mallard Place 66. Richmond Road CHURCH ROAD 3 CONSERVATION AREA No.85 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Statement of Significance Summary of special • A hospital and its smaller displays its past use on its architectural and historic dispensary buildings are façade as the workplace and interest of conservation area. situated in this conservation dwelling of a stonemason; area and are of historic and • Victorian and Edwardian • Buildings of Townscape Merit architectural value. Both commercial and residential include the Teddington Baptist buildings are now converted to street which developed around Church (with a unique fully housing, but still display original the same time as nearby Broad glazed modern extension), the late 19th century architectural Street; Abercorn public house, and the features; hospital dispensary building. • Church Road became an • The area includes some The variety of building uses, important subsidiary street to buildings with evidence of both historic and current, add Broad Street, with several retail historic domestic and trade/ to the interest and character of units of a domestic scale, and commercial shared use. An the area. larger buildings with a periphery interesting survivor is No.31 service-orientated use to the Church Road (Building of main high street (Broad Street); Townscape Merit) which Parade of shops with residential above, set back behind deep forecourts. CHURCH ROAD 4 CONSERVATION AREA No.85 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Location and Setting General character and plan Broad Street, with several retail along Church Road, including form, e.g. linear, compact, units of a domestic scale, and a police station, hospital and dense or dispersed; important larger buildings with a periphery dispensary (off Walpole Road), views, landmarks, open spaces, service-orientated use to the main Working Men’s Club, a Baptist uniformity. high street (Broad Street). Church and Salvation Army. The 1899 Kelly’s Directory shows Church Road is a linear road which The Church Road Conservation that there were over 40 trades terminates at the entrance to the Area is predominantly located operating along Church Road, with large formally laid-out Teddington along Church Road, Elfin Grove and houses possibly converting front Cemetery to the north, and the Walpole Crescent, Teddington. rooms to trade use. The directory prominent junction of Broad Street The area represents a Victorian and shows that trades ranged from and The Causeway to the south. The Edwardian mixed commercial and builders, monumental masons, area has a more domestic character residential street which developed butchers, grocers, undertakers, when compared to Broad Street, around the same time as nearby confectioners, insurance dealers with buildings generally being two Broad Street. and others. To support these storeys in height, with the more smaller trades and the wider area, public buildings being larger and Church Road became an public buildings were established more prominent in the street scene. important subsidiary street to CHURCH ROAD 5 CONSERVATION AREA No.85 CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Historical Development Stages/ phases of historical railway line were constructed with include shopfronts towards the development and historic small tightly knit terraced houses. end of the 19th