Bid to legalise repairs made to historic stone wall

Restrospective permission to repair a historic stone wall in "one of the prettiest streets in England' has been submitted.

Metin Dener is seeking permission from Cotswold District Council for repairs to a drystone wall at Rosemary Cottage in Awkward Hill, Bibury.

The hand-built wall is part of a nationally notable architectural conservation area depicted on the inside cover of UK passports.

It uses a special capping design along the top which is part of the conservation design.

Rosemary Cottage is one of a group of cottages on Awkward Hill, just past the world famous Arlington Row, the Local Democracy Reporting Service was told.

Arlington Row was built in the late 14th century as a wool store and converted into weavers houses in the late 17th century.

It is an extremely popular visitor attraction, probably one of the most photographed Cotswold scenes.

Consultants working on the scheme say the works should be approved as it is consistent for what was once a boundary field wall and includes “like for like” capping replacements.

“The original drawings submitted showed the capping to the retaining wall as a shallow fall “flat” stone capping," the application states.

“This type of capping is found on the set back section of wall further along the lane which is thought to be acceptable for a field wall, when the whole of the wall was part of the same field wall previously.”

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