Birds Cottage
BIRDS COTTAGE, 22, BROUGHTON ROAD, MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE, MK10 9AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125199
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Birds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIRDS COTTAGE, 22, BROUGHTON ROAD, MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE, MK10 9AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125199
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Birds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRDS COTTAGE, 22, BROUGHTON ROAD, MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE, MK10 9AH
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- BIRDS COTTAGE, 22, BROUGHTON ROAD, MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE, MK10 9AH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broughton and Milton Keynes
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88929 39098
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/01/2017
SP 83 NE
4/82A
MILTON KEYNES
MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE
BROUGHTON ROAD
No.22 (Birds Cottage)
(Formerly listed as No. 22, MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE)
GV
II*
House. C14 or earlier, altered and extended C17, and C19. Timber framed, mostly cased in C19 brick, still exposed at North end with brick and plaster infill. Upper part of roof thatched, hipped at South end, half hipped North end, lower part tiled. Central brick chimney and a second at the South end of East elevation. Two three-light C19 gabled dormers to each side, those to West elevation with fretted bargeboards and patterned brick gables. 1½ storeys, four bay plan, three northern bays medieval, South bay C17. West elevation has one-storey timber framed and brick lean-to and gabled additions at North end, part tiled, part slated. Door in centre, two-light casement to RH, three-light casement to far RH. South gable has three-light upper casement, nine-paned fixed sash to RH of ground floor. East elevation has two three-light casements, door to RH. North gable has three-light casement to ground floor, two two-light upper casements.
Interior. Central two bays former open hall with complete base cruck central truss, blades with chamfers and grooved soffits, massive braces to arcade plates, in turn supported on brackets on North truss. C14 North bay has similar plates, with curved braces to posts in North wall.
Roof: crownpost over central truss, with upward brace to collar purlin, downward brace to tiebeam. Original collars and rafters with heavy smoke blackening, also to underside of thatch. C17 inserted central chimney stack. Early C19 interior fittings including South room fireplace and complete small office for building business with fireplace, panelled cupboards, shelves, leaded internal window etc.
(RCHM II p.201 Monument 7).
Listing NGR: SP8892939098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45941
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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