Stowmarket, Suffolk
COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, STOWMARKET
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1292591
Date first listed: 28-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment: 29-Nov-1993
Statutory Address 1: COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, 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
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/129259...
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The 16th century former vicarage, now the town council offices and register office, has associations with John Milton, and ‘Milton’s Tree’ in its grounds is believed to be an offshoot of one of the many trees he planted there.
The poet John Milton made regular visits to the town as his tutor, Dr Thomas Young, became vicar of Stowmarket in 1628.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowmarket
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Stowmarket – A Brief History
Mentioned in the Doomsday Book in 1086 the town had a population of only 200. The medieval heart of Stowmarket lies around the parish church of St. Peter and St. Mary and in the area leading down to the riverbank. Today the town has 131 buildings listed by the Department of National Heritage as buildings of special architectural or historic interest and one, the parish church, is classified as being of “exceptional interest”. The large Town Centre Conservation Area has a predominance of Georgian architecture within it.
Edward III granted the Town a market charter in July 1347 and the market continues to serve local people every Thursday and Saturday in the Market Place. This popular traditional market is supplemented with monthly Farmers Markets and occasional continental and specialist markets.
Stowmarket, Suffolk
COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, STOWMARKET
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1292591
Date first listed: 28-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment: 29-Nov-1993
Statutory Address 1: COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, 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
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/129259...
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The 16th century former vicarage, now the town council offices and register office, has associations with John Milton, and ‘Milton’s Tree’ in its grounds is believed to be an offshoot of one of the many trees he planted there.
The poet John Milton made regular visits to the town as his tutor, Dr Thomas Young, became vicar of Stowmarket in 1628.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowmarket
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Stowmarket – A Brief History
Mentioned in the Doomsday Book in 1086 the town had a population of only 200. The medieval heart of Stowmarket lies around the parish church of St. Peter and St. Mary and in the area leading down to the riverbank. Today the town has 131 buildings listed by the Department of National Heritage as buildings of special architectural or historic interest and one, the parish church, is classified as being of “exceptional interest”. The large Town Centre Conservation Area has a predominance of Georgian architecture within it.
Edward III granted the Town a market charter in July 1347 and the market continues to serve local people every Thursday and Saturday in the Market Place. This popular traditional market is supplemented with monthly Farmers Markets and occasional continental and specialist markets.