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Shrubberies Cottage Summary of Characteristics of the village! The essential architectural, historic and environmental qualities that make up the special character of Liverton Conservation Area can be summarised as follows: - • A linear, green, upland village with a surrounding field system located on slightly undulating terrain, close to the edge of the moor. • A well preserved and archaeologically important historic settlement layout. • Spacious layout with buildings widely dispersed and in groups. • Predominantly agricultural and residential uses comprising 1th8 and th19 farmsteads and cottages, a church, village hall and inn. • The relationship of buildings to the spaces between them. • The ways in which those spaces are used – as well maintained cottage gardens and as fields and paddocks used for pasture, grazing and arable. • The stream flowing through the village crossing the frontages of properties. • Historic grassed rear garths with mature hedgerows hedgerow trees and ridge-and-furrow patterns. • Individual specimen trees, hedgerow trees and groups of trees act as visual breaks and screens and make open spaces more attractive. • A variety of building style including the distinctive, local vernacular tradition of building along with influences from the Scottish Borders vernacular. • Key features of buildings are: - Traditional building materials including local herringbone-dressed sandstone Pitched roofs with chimney stacks and clay pots. Traditional roofing materials are clay pan tiles and Welsh slate. Varied proportions of window openings with stone lintels and sills and flat brick arches. Wooden, multi-paned, vertically-sliding and ‘Yorkshire’ horizontally sliding, sash windows Doors of vertical timber boards or of four or more panels, under stone lintels or brick arches. Plain, unadorned farm outbuildings have particular styles of doors, windows and ventilators designed for function rather than architectural symmetry. • Traditional forms of enclosure as follows: - Stone walls, particularly alongside Liverton Road. Timber fences including painted picket fences. Blackthorn, hawthorn and mixed species hedges. • The most important buildings are: The Parish Church Church House Farm Tickhill House Farm and cottages Shrubberies Cottage The converted outbuildings of Shrubberies Farm. All of these characteristics contribute to the character and attractiveness of the conservation area that embraces the whole of the historic core of the settlement. To see more posts, visit the ABC Blog here To see the ABC Anthology, visit here