Milton House and Manor Cottage

MILTON HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040969
Date first listed:
03-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Milton House and Manor Cottage
Statutory Address:
MILTON HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040969
Date first listed:
03-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Milton House and Manor Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MILTON HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILTON HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Milton Malsor
National Grid Reference:
SP 73340 55394

Details

SP 7355 MILTON MALSOR RECTORY LANE (North side) 9/117 Milton House and Manor Cottage 03/05/68 (Formerly listed as Milton House)

II

Small country house, now divided into 2 dwellings. Early-mid C18, extended 1777 with C20 alterations. Ironstone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, stone internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Central 4-panel door with fanlight and Doric columns supporting sections of entablature and open pediment. Approached by 2 stone steps. 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with flat-arched heads and keyblocks. Plinth, chamfered quoins, storey band, moulded stone eaves and 3 segmental-gabled roof dormers. Wing to rear right (Manor Cottage) dated 1777 of 2 storeys, with gabled plain-tile roof and 6-panel door with fanlight and moulded wood surround. 12-pane sashes to ground and 1st floors. Interior. Hall has chequered stone paving. Inner staircase hall has open well staircase with panelled dado, carved tread ends, stick balusters and ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail. Moulded plaster cornices to most rooms. Original eared wood chimneypieces upstairs; another similar of stone. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p306)

Listing NGR: SP7334055394

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
234935
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 306

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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