Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum

Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum, Church Green Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160103
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum
Statutory Address:: Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum, Church Green Road

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Date:: 1999-09-02
Reference:: IOE01/00976/26
Rights:: © Mr Nick Jarvis. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160103
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Mar-1976
List Entry Name:: Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum
Statutory Address 1:: Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum, Church Green Road

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

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:: Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum, Church Green Road

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Bletchley
National Grid Reference:: SP 86326 33620

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 August 2023 to amend description including date of construction and addition of reference to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards.

SP 8633 4/23

BLETCHLEY CHURCH GREEN ROAD (north side) Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum

II* The hall dates back to 1475 and the cottage pair of 1618. Moved to present site in 1618. Half timbered L-plan former cottage pair with hall adjoining to north-west. The buildings have been restored, brick and plaster infill weatherboarding to hall. Steep pitch gable end old tile roofs. Brick chimneys C18. Two-light leaded wood casements. Renewed doorways. The hall has a finely preserved hammerbeam roof in three bays.

HISTORIC NOTE: the date of the hall has been updated (formerly dated in the List entry to 1447) on the basis of dendrochronological survey of timbers from the hall being dated to 1475-76, as recorded in Allan T Adams, Peter Jarvis and Edward Legg.(1988)

Listing NGR: SP8632633620

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

Legacy System number:: 45395
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
A T Adams, , Peter Jarvis, , Edward Legg, , 'Rectory Cottages, Bletchley' in Records of Buckinghamshire, , Vol. 30, (1988), 1-16

Legal

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