Steep Buildings and Monuments Contents Introduction 1 Preface 3 Steep Parish Map 4 Ridge Common Lane 5 Lythe Lane 7 Dunhill and Dunhurst 7 Stoner Hill 9 Church Road 12 Mill Lane 25 Ashford Lane 28 Steep Hill and Harrow Lane 34 Steep Marsh, Bowers Common and London Road, Sheet 39 Bedales 42 The Hangers 47 Architects A - Z 48 The following reports also form part of the work of the Steep Parish Plan Steering Group and are available in separate documents, either accessible through the Steep Parish Plan website www.steepparishplan.org.uk or from the Steep Parish Clerk Steep Parish Plan 2012 Steep Settlements Character Assessment Steep Local Landscape Character Assessment October 2012 2 Introduction Steep is at the western edge of the Weald, within the Bedales grounds, the Memorial at the foot of the Hangers, with the Downs Library and Lupton Hall are outstanding and to the south. The earliest buildings were are Grade I listed. The influence of the Arts amongst a sporadic pattern of farmsteads and Crafts Movement can also be seen at at the foot of the Hangers’ scarp, which Ashford Chace, the War Memorial and Whiteman in the ‘Origins of Steep’ suggests Village Hall. were settled in early Saxon times. The The other influence that Bedales had on Hampshire Archaeology and Historic Build- Steep was through the parents of its pupils, ings Record confirms these suggestions. All who decided to live locally while their chil- Saints Church dates from 1125 and dren were educated at the School, Edward ‘Restalls’, a timber framed house on its east Thomas and his family being the prime ex- side is thought to be the oldest dwelling in ample. The association of former pupils, the parish, having been constructed in early writers and artists with the School has en- Tudor times. sured buildings and monuments that have a Whiteman believes that the “great rebuild- particular resonance with the outside world, ing” which took place between 1580 and such as the Edward Thomas Memorial 1620 saw many previously wooden farm- Stone. stead buildings replaced by stone structures In the mid and late 20th Century, although - such as Steep, Tankerdale, Gardner’s, Soal much that was built had little architectural and the Harrow Inn. significance, Mill Corner, Millponds and Mill- In the mid 19th Century the coming of the fall marked a new beginning. By the 1990s railway to Petersfield and growing prosperity Bedales had commissioned the Olivier Thea- meant that gentlemen’s residences re- tre which was followed by the Orchard Build- placed some of the farms and new Victorian ing in 2003. mansions by prominent architects were built The involvement by a wide range of distin- such as Adhurst St. Mary and Coldhayes. guished architects and designers in Steep In 1900, Bedales School arrived from Sus- over the last 150 years reflects its unique sex. Its links with the Arts and Crafts Move- heritage and landscape. This record is pro- ment and some of its key artists and archi- duced as part of the Steep Parish Plan tects together with a progressive curriculum 2012 to ensure that this architectural and that included a strong emphasis on practi- cultural heritage is more widely known and cal handicrafts gave a new impetus to build- recognised. The descriptions are in an ings in Steep. The Introduction to the Build- approximate east - west sequence and the ings of England, Hampshire: Winchester and Preface gives a summary of the background the North in the revised and updated Pevs- material consulted. ner Guide suggests that together with Hart- This record is at October 2012 and it is ley Witney, Steep’s importance in the Arts recognised that it will never be complete and Crafts Movement “is comparable to and will require regular updating. Omissions contemporary centres in the Cotsworlds are inevitable but hopefully it will be possi- and, as there, the Hampshire architects and ble to revise it in the future. In the mean- designers were inspired by the previous time it is intended that an update version generation of Morris and Philip Webb.” will be available via the website as a PDF. Little Hawsted, Row Cottage, Five Oaks, Mill Tony Struthers, Steep Cottage, Restalls and Rozel are some of the October 2012 best domestic examples in Church Road from the early part of the 20th Century, but 1 Preface This record sets out the buildings and mon- The Hampshire Register of Historic Parks uments in the Parish of Steep which are of and Gardens is a database of parks, gar- interest from a historic or literary point of dens, and other designed landscapes in view. Hampshire, based on survey, research and recording of sites carried out by Hampshire It is based on the following - County Council, Hampshire Gardens Trust and others. The Register notes “the infor- English Heritage http:// mation varies from sites that are fully docu- www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/ which pro- mented to those that may have little more vides an on-line database of buildings and than a site name and location. Research structures that are listed as being of special continues and the database is continually architectural and historic interest. It also being added to; some records may be confi- includes a photo record of some of the dential to respect the wishes of particular buildings. owners.” See http://www3.hants.gov.uk/ landscape-and-heritage/historic- Pevsner - The Buildings of England Hamp- environment/parks-gardens.htm shire: Winchester and the North - Michael Bullen, John Croak, Rodney Hubbuck and Treasures Online (HT) http:// Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/ is 2010. the original Hampshire County Council rec- http://yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner.asp This is ord of treasures to be found throughout an updated and revised form of part of the Hampshire. A Hampshire Treasure is de- original Buildings of England guide to Hamp- fined thus: Those natural or man made fea- shire and the Isle of Wight, published by tures of the county which are of public inter- Penguin Books 1967 and written jointly by est by reason of their aesthetic, archaeologi- Nikolaus Pevsner and David W. Lloyd. cal, historic, scenic, scientific, sociological or traditional interest, and whose deterioration The Archaeology and Historic Buildings Rec- or destruction would represent a serious ord (AHBR) is the Historic Environment Rec- loss to our heritage. The records relate to ord for Hampshire County Council. It is an Volume 6 (East Hampshire) Steep Pages index to the known archaeological sites and 301 - 309 finds, historic buildings, designed and his- toric landscapes, parks and gardens, and Victoria County History (VCH) 'Parishes: industrial monuments in the county. See Steep', A History of the County of Hamp- http://www3.hants.gov.uk/landscape-and- shire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 77-81. URL: heritage/historic-environment/historic- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ buildings-register.htm .The AHBR includes report.aspx?compid=41932 sites and finds dating from the prehistoric period, to buildings and defences of the Whiteman, Bill (W.M.) Whiteman (1905 - twentieth century. The records range from 1989) was a writer of local history, caravan- impressive monuments, such as Iron Age ning and the countryside who lived at North- hillforts, to single finds reported by mem- field Cottage, Church Road, Steep. He wrote bers of the public.The AHBR Online is sup- several books on Steep and collected an plemented by a computer database linked archive of material about the area, its build- to a digital mapping system, and by a paper- ings and personalities. His books and arti- based archive which includes fieldwork and cles include - ‘The Edward Thomas Country’ survey reports, articles, images, and aerial Paul Cave Publications, Southampton 1988, photographs. ‘The Origins of Steep’ Petersfield Papers No. 2 4, ‘The Reputed Manor of Ashford, Steep’ Wake and Denton - Wake, Roy and Denton, Petersfield Papers No.8, Petersfield Area Pennie - Bedales School, The First Hundred Historical Society and a series of un- Years, Haggerston Press 1993 published notes in his archive. Steep Village Design Statement, Steep Par- Kelly, Candace - Geoffrey Henry Lupton ish Council 2001 (1882 - 1949) and others - Thesis prepared for School of Architecture, Portsmouth Poly- Jeffery, David - The Arts and Crafts Move- technic 1976, with comments and correc- ment in Steep and Petersfield, DVD Anger- tions by Edward Barnsley, Gonda Stamford ton Video Productions 2011 and Allan Lupton, Bedales Memorial Library No. 31928 Hollis, Matthew - Now All Roads Lead to France, The Last Years of Edward Thomas, Ottewill, David - Arts and Crafts Buildings in Faber and Faber, London 2011 the Petersfield and Steep Area, Un- published monograph for Victorian Society, In addition, use has been made of books October 1980 and online material about local personali- ties such as Wikipedia - http:// Holder, Richard - Bedales, Steep and the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page together Arts and Crafts Movement - Unpublished with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biog- monograph July 1990 raphy (DNB) and Who Was Who - both avail- able to subscribers through the Hampshire Pendery, D.J. - Nature’s Own Textures, A Reference Library http:// dissertation submitted towards a Master of www3.hants.gov.uk/library/reference- Arts in Architecture, University of Sheffield, online.htm 1989, Bedales Memorial Library 3 4 Ridge Common Lane [1] Stroud Mission Church Not listed 1896 Built in 1896, the year of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. It is now part of the benefice of Steep and Froxfield with Privett, within the Diocese of Portsmouth. See http://www.steep-and-froxfield.org.uk/ “Brick and stone with timber lancets” Pevsner p.492 [2] Aldersnapp Farmhouse Grade II C13, C19 The AHBR records it as being first mentioned as a farmstead in the Medieval Period (1288) as ALRESNAPE (piece of land or pasture land).