Milton's Cottage is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. A {"Early C17","C18 (restoration)"} Cottage.
Milton's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-barrel-heron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Milton's Cottage, Dean Way, Chalfont St. Giles
- OS grid reference
- SU 988 933
- Coordinates
- 51.63045, -0.57266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milton's Cottage is an early 17th-century timber-framed house featuring red brick infill and an old tile roof. It has a two-storey 18th-century wing that is set at right angles to the main structure. The building has leaded casement windows and three bays facing the street, with an original stack of old thin bricks located between the two left-hand bays. There is a lean-to on the left and a large projecting stack on the right. This cottage was lent to John Milton by his friend Thomas Ellwood in 1665, allowing Milton to escape from London during the plague year. It is here that he completed "Paradise Lost" and likely began "Paradise Regained," which was suggested to him by Ellwood. This is the only remaining house where Milton lived, and it now serves as a museum dedicated to him.
Local climate
Milton's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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