Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Milton's Cottage at Wikipedia
• Milton's Cottage official website
• Wikidata Q6860889

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)