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Windows to the buildings. Roadside hedges are a particular feature
of Little Ickford. Hedgerow boundaries form a soft organic
Windows. Historically windows are small casement edge to the road, contrast with the hard building forms,
types made of wood, with leaded lights, or plain wooden reinforce the rural character of the village and create a sense
mullion and transoms. On 19 century buildings sash of enclosure, reducing visual width of the road, particularly
th
windows are a feature. There are examples of more in places where there are no footpaths, e.g. much of Little
decorative windows found throughout the village. Ickford, parts of Church Road, and the northern part of
Windows play a key role in the appearance of buildings, Worminghall Rad.
and replacement of traditional wooden windows with There are a number of stone or brick walls in the village.
modern uPVC can reduce the historic integrity of a They are particularly noticeable at the end of Church Road.
building. These walls are not high enough to restrict visibility of the
properties behind them but they link the area visually, and
tie the buildings together. In Little Ickford both The New
Doors
Manor House and Ickford House have walls delineating
Doors. Vernacular doors tend to be plain timber their front boundaries and. This pattern is repeated at The
construction, sometimes with a small window light. Close, where the walls have tile cappings. Hunters House
Porches are a feature on some buildings. has a substantial brick wall to its frontage.
Elsewhere in the village boundaries consist of a mixture
of hedging, low brick walls, or fencing. Hard boundaries
Wells
are softened by garden planting.
Wells: Unsurprisingly, given the high water table in the Historic railings are not a common boundary treatment,
locality, there are a large number of wells in the village. 21 but can be found to the front of the former Baptist Chapel,
are shown on the 1899 OS map and there are at least 2 and to part of the garden boundary at Apple Acre.
others that are not mapped.
Surface Treatments.
Boundary treatments
There are no historic surface treatments in evidence within
In general terms the boundary treatments in Ickford reflect the village, probably as a result of its origins as an
the rural character of the village. On the upper reaches of agricultural settlement. Roadside footpaths, where they
roads out of the village, roadside hedges provide screening exist, are tarmacked.

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