Council Offices and Oak Cottage
COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292591
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Council Offices and Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292591
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Council Offices and Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD
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:
- COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05053 58536
Details
STOWMARKET
TM0558 MILTON ROAD 614-1/4/93 (North West side) 28/07/50 Nos.1, 3 AND 5 Council Offices and Oak Cottage (Formerly Listed as: MILTON ROAD (North East side) Nos.1, 3 AND 5 The Old Vicarage (3) and Oak Cottage (5))
II
Vicarage, now council offices since 1974 and a house. C17 origins, considerably altered and enlarged since. Timber-framed, rendered, pebbledashed and colourwashed. Plain tile roofs. The 2-storey north-western block is the C17 part, with an early C18 gabled cross wing added to the south-east gable end. This also 2-storey. The 2-storey range running north-east of this is also early C18, and constitutes Oak Cottage. c1860-70 the south-east extensions were added, now forming the council chamber. These terminate in a hipped bay against the gable with 4-light Geometric tracery windows and one-light returns. In the late C18 general additions of oriel windows. Oak Cottage, extending north-east with replaced 2-light casements, 2 projecting oriels to the first floor and a cluster of 3 2/2 ground-floor sashes. Gabled roof with central ridge stack. The C17 north-west wing illuminated through various types of sashes. Gabled roof and central ridge stack. Both these wings of 4 irregular bays. The cross wing between them with oriels to the south-west gable and the south-east flank, next to an external stack. Both these oriels appear in mid C18 drawings. The C19 extension has a dormer and a C20 entrance block of one storey. INTERIOR. Council chamber entered through a 2-panel early C18 door. Dentil cornice. Timber-framed rear parts with chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops. Doorways and fireplaces generally C20. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Young, a tutor of John Milton, was vicar here 1628-55. From his letters it is obvious that Milton visited the house. The Rev. A.G. Hollingsworth, author of "The History of Stowmarket", 1844, also lived here. (Double H: Stowmarket - A Book of Records: Stowmarket: 1983-: 43, 124).
Listing NGR: TM0505358536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Double, H, A Book of Records Stowmarket, (1983), 43, 124
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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