Milton's Cottage
MILTON'S COTTAGE, DEAN WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125006
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Milton's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILTON'S COTTAGE, DEAN WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125006
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Milton's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILTON'S COTTAGE, DEAN WAY
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILTON'S COTTAGE, DEAN WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 98888 93368
Details
CHALFONT ST GILES DEAN WAY 1. 5134 (south side) Milton's Cottage (formerly listed under High Street (south side) SU 9893 4/9 22.12.58
CV 2. Early C17, restored Cl8. Timber-framed house with red brick infill and old tile roof. Two storey C18 wing at right angles. Leaded casement windows. Three bays to street with original stack of old thin bricks between 2 left hand bays. Lean-to at left and large projecting stack to right. Lent to Milton by friend Thomas Ellwood in order that Milton could escape from London in the plague year, 1665. Here he finished Paradise Lost and probably began Paradise Regained, suggested to him by Ellwood. The only remaining house in which Milton lived. Now a museum to Milton. RCHM 1 83 Monument 9.
Listing NGR: SU9888893368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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