Milton Lodge

MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113973
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Milton Lodge
Statutory Address:
MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113973
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Milton Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)

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

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Milton Bryan
National Grid Reference:
SP 96605 30562

Details

SP 9630-9730 MILTON BRYAN LONDON ROAD (B528) 12/60 - Milton Lodge GV II Entrance lodge to Battlesden House (now demolished). Probably c1860-1868 by G H Stokes (advised by Sir Joseph Paxton) for Sir Edward Page-Turner. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Small T-plan structure of one storey and attics. 2 and 3-light moulded mullion and transom windows. These have brick aprons, and cornices of brick surmounted by ashlar. SE gable has canted bay to ground floor. Porch within E angle. 6-panel door, rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave with heavy keystone and impost blocks. Moulded string course at first floor level to main elevations. Stone coping to gables and parapets. Variety of decorative stone finials to gables. 2 slightly projecting chimney stacks, one to side wall of each block, both with moulded stone cornices. D Bassett, "G H Stokes at Battlesden and Belle Vue", Architectural History, vol 26, 1983, pp 92-5. Beds Record Cffice: T18/36, lease of 1868.

Listing NGR: SP9660530562

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Legacy System number:
38162
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, Vol. 26, (1983), 92-95

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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