Bampton Grange Conservation Area
Why is Bampton Grange special?
Bampton Grange is one of a string of settlements within the Lowther Valley which have attractive architectural and historic character. This includes:
- Small historic hamlet set on the Shap to Askham road at and important crossing point over the river at Church Bridge
- Rural location on the floodplain of the Lowther Valley with attractive views
- Tightly clustered settlement of farms and houses
- Evidence of strip field farming, forming an important part of the landscape setting of the hamlet
- Many buildings with architectural and historic quality, one of which is a grade II star listed building and eight others which are grade II listed buildings, including some good examples of the vernacular tradition
- The eighteenth century St Patrick’s Church at the village's centre, on a site where a church has existed since at least the twelfth century
- Palette of building materials reflects the underlying geology, carboniferous limestone
- Stretches of traditional cobbled street surfaces
- Important individual trees and tree groups