- 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
Kington
Kington is a market town, selecting ward as well as civil church in Herefordshire, England. According to the Parish, the ward had a population of 3,240 while the 2011 census had a population of 2,626. The name 'Kington' is originated from King's-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Town", comparable to other close-by towns such as Presteigne significance "Priest's Town" and also Knighton being "Knight's Town". Kington is to the west of Offa's Dyke so presumably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, but ravaged. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the downfall of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I provided Kington to Adam de Port, who started a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have actually been a silent barony and was associated with the office of constable of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, probably the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled as well as got away the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, only to flee from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the fantastic mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown as well as ended up being an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, ultimately being granted to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £100. The castle after that saw action in the Braose Wars versus King John of England and also was most likely to have actually been destroyed by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a few years a new citadel was commenced as well as the nearby Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were deserted. All that stays of Kington Castle today is a wonderful outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and Norman church on top of a defensive hillside above the River Arrow. St Mary's church, situated on greater ground over the town centre. 'Chingtune' was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high on the hill over the town where St. Mary's Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined between 1175 and 1230 ashore bordering the River Arrow and also perhaps assigned as part of the Saxon open area system. Positioned on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge and with eight annual fairs, Kington grew in relevance as a market town and there is still a flourishing livestock market on Thursdays. The town keeps the middle ages grid pattern of roads and back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary's Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, slaughtered at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, as well as likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog's discovery reputedly presages fatality. It is also rumoured to have been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at nearby Hergest Hall soon prior to he wrote the novel.
