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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NW 487
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:MILTON COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1632

Summary from record TQ 76 NW 147 :

House, formerly part of old hall. C16 and early C17.


Grid Reference:TQ 7411 6847
Map Sheet:TQ76NW
Parish:ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1632 AD)
  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1086509: MILTON COTTAGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER BOLEY HILL TQ 7468 SW 9/6 Milton Cottage 19.2.70 GV II* House, formerly part of Old Hall (qv Refs, 9/7). C16 and early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed, part roughcast, part weatherboarded. Kent tile roof. Long low 2- storey range, original function uncertain. Exterior: irregular 3 window range, returns one single bay to right where it is attached to Old Hall. 2 and 3 light casements, the return with a 6-light window to ground. Large stack at junction of Milton Cottage and Old hall. rear: one small stair light; weatherboarding much renewed. Some timber framing visible. Interior: 4 rooms, at 1st floor there is some plaster panelling painted with naturalistic foliage and floral motifs in formal surrounds, a slightly lower status version of the painted wooden panels in Old Hall. Intersecting ceiling beams, stopped and chamfered. Side purlin roof with wind braces.
Listing NGR: TQ7411568485

Description from record TQ 76 NW 147 :
[TQ 74136848] Milton Cottage[NAT] (1) BOLEY HILL Milton Cottage House, formerly part of Old Hall (qv refs, 9/7). C16 and early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed, part roughcast, part weather boarded. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE II*. Additional architectural reference. (a) (2)


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> OS 1:1250 1969 (OS Card Reference). SKE48181.

<2> DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway, Kent 2nd Dec 1991 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE41284.

<3> Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 496-7 (OS Card Reference). SKE47546.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1:1250 1969.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway, Kent 2nd Dec 1991 4.
<3>OS Card Reference: Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 496-7.

Related records

TQ 76 NW 10Part of: Saxon town of Rochester (Place)