Appendix - Peak District National Park Authority

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PLEASE NOTE: No Conservation Area Appraisal can eve r be completely comprehensive, and o missionof any particular building, feature or space should not be taken to imply that it is of no interest.In addition, there is a Glossary at the back of this Appraisal amplifying a range of historical and technicalterms used within this document.v
1.0 CHARACTER SUMMARY1.1 The Hathersage Conservation Area wasdesignated on 24 Ap ril 1981. T he existingConservation Area bou ndary cove rs th e histo riccore of the settlement and around Bank Top andCamp Green and in cludes Main Road and thehistoric i ndustrial site s along Th e Dale and MillLane. It also in cludes some twentiet h centurydevelopment whi ch ha s in -filled gap sitesparticularly to the we stern e nd of theConservation Area.1.2 The Conservation A rea App raisalproposes to extend the bound ary to inclu deOddfellows Ro w and Bank Hou se, o n StationRoad, for reasons of a rchitectural a nd hi storicinterest (see Section 10 for the full justification).1.3 Hathersage l ies within th e Derbyshi reDales, towards the north-eastern boundary of thePeak District Natio nal P ark. The A6 187 runsthrough the Conservation Area along Main Roadand form s a junctio n with the B6001 at StationRoad.P1.1 Ornamental Lamp at the junction of theA6187 and B60011.4 The Authority’s Landscape Strategy andAction Plan (LSAP, 2009) locates the settlementwithin the Derwent Valle y region al land scapecharacter area, which incl udes the Ho pe Valley.Hathersage is located at the ea stern end of theHope Valley, on th e vall ey slo pe of the Rive rDerwent, and two of the river’s trib utaries, theHood Broo k and Dal e Broo k, run th rough thesettlement. A series of gritstone edges, includingStanage Edge, lie just to the north-east.1.5 The settlem ent was ori ginally a sm allfarming community, wi th lead -smelting andquarrying bei ng ca rried o ut along the gritstoneescarpments. Its location beside the two bro oks,however, wa s a cataly st for develop ment an dHathersage expanded throughout the ei ghteenthand ni neteenth ce nturies from a n a griculturalsettlement to an indu strial one, with theconstruction of wate r-powered mill s specialisingin metal-working. The industry was primarilybased on wire-drawing, and Hathersage becamefamous for the production of hackle and gill pinsfor automated combing machines.1.2 Barnfield Mill is part of the industrial heritage1.6 This i ndustrial expan sion re sulted in adramatic i ncrease in po pulation, which rea ched1,600 by 1921. The 2 001 census figure shows afurther rise i n popul ation to 1,774 within thevillage.1.7 Part of the sp ecial int erest of th eHathersage Conservation Area lie s in its settingon the botto m of the Derwent V alley and withinthe cleft of T he Dale, surrounded on all sides byhills. Thi s m eans that from almost any locationwithin the vil lage, hill s ca n be seen a bove o rbetween th e buildi ngs, providin g a greenbackdrop to the stonework. The Parish Church ofSt. Michael and All Ang els sits high er up the hillon Ban k To p, as a result of whi ch its tall spirecan be glimpsed above and between buildings inmany parts of the Conservation Area.1.8 The majo rity of buildings in th eConservation Ar ea were c onstructed in theeighteenth, nineteenth an d twentieth centu ries.The predomi nant buildin g material is millstonegrit, whi ch has provide d a strong unifyingelement.P1.3 Gritstone, surrounding hills and maturetrees contribute to the character.1
Page 1 and 2: DRAFTConservation Area AppraisalMar
Page 3 and 4: INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION AREAS
Page 5: LIST OF FIGURESPage No.Fig. 1 Locat
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Development pro posals may therefor
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14.0 GLOSSARYAgrarian Of the land o
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15.0 REFERENCESBagshaw, S. (1846)Ba
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