- The rules only apply to houses – flats and maisonettes are not included
- Only 50% of the area of land around the original house can be covered by extensions, including conservatories, and other buildings
- You mustn’t build the conservatory higher than the highest part of the original roof
- Where the wooden conservatory comes within 2 metres of the boundary, the height at the eaves can’t exceed 3 metres
- A rear wooden conservatory can’t extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by more than 4 metres if it’s a detached house, or more than 3 metres for any other type of house
- For side extensions, for example a lean-to wooden conservatory, it can’t exceed 4 metres in height and can only be up to half the width of the original house
Banwell
Banwell is a town and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset area of Somerset, England. Its population was 2,919 according to the 2011 census. Banwell Camp, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall and also bathroom residence near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it came under disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the site was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually considering that been included into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans home in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Cost, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little building provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It served as the station house till the 1960s as well as now houses a tiny museum of memorabilia connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeleton located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally developed as his home, it is currently a hotel and also restaurant and is a Grade II * listed structure.