Building record 1262500000 - MILTON'S COTTAGE, DEAN WAY

Grade I. Early C17, restored C18. 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 (B1).





(Name SU 98899336) Milton's Cottage (T.I.) (B3).

The cottage at Chalfont St. Giles is the only known residence which now exists that was formerly inhabited by John Milton. It was occupied by Milton in 1665. The cottage is of red brick with timber framing, of the early 17th. orlate 16th. century. The coat-of-arms on the front are those of the Fleetwoods and is believed to have been brought from the Vache.
(SU 99 SE 2) (B4).

Milton's Cottage, early 17th C, restored 18th C. Timber-framed with red brick nogging. Grade I (B5).

Milton's Cottage as described by DOE and now incorporating a museum to the poet. It is not architecturally outstanding but is historically important and a tourist attraction (B6).

NRHE insert 1998, update 1997.