NOOKS and CORNERS
WHEN a 400-year-old timber building is demolished and replaced with a breeze block workshop, without any kind of listed building consent or process, there’s usually a hullaballoo from planners and conservation officers. They might even demand the building be completely rebuilt.
Not so in Doncaster, where the council itself carried out such a demolition last year, after receiving a “dangerous structures notice” from the owner requesting it. It is now waiting for the owner to submit a retrospective planning application for the horrid replacement.
The 17th-century former shop in Stainforth was said by Historic England to be “an impressive, late-C17 timber-framed building that contains a significant proportion of its original fabric” and “a rare survival of this building type in the area”.