Milton Malsor - Landmarks

Landmarks

Much of the village is in a conservation area which is shown on a map on the Parish Council website and has many traditional Northamptonshire stone cottages, a large number of which have thatched or pantiled roofs. There are over 30 listed buildings in the village, most, but not all, in the conservation area. Particular buildings of note, mostly listed by their street locations, are as follows:

• Rectory Lane, formerly Pluck's Lane
  • Milton House (early 18th century) and Manor Cottage (1777), Grade II listed. The house has a doorway with Tuscan columns
  • Mortimers, Grade II listed, early 18th century earlier than Milton House, which was named after a family who lived there and originally owned by the Hospital of St John at the bottom of Bridge Street in Northampton. The house and its grounds were auctioned on 17 March 2011 fetching a total of £1,115,000, but with the house requiring substantial refurbishment. According to the local paper the house was once lived-in by Revd Samuel Wigg the founder of Northampton Saints Rugby Football Club. The house was last sold in 1921, and last lived in by Margaret Alexander, granddaughter of Wigg.
  • Milton Malsor Manor, Grade II listed, 16th century, James Harrington, the author of the controversial book "The Commonwealth of Oceana", published 1656, was a former occupant and the building has a blue plaque in recognition, installed on 4 October 2008
  • The Old Rectory, now used as architects offices
• Collingtree Road
  • Church of the Holy Cross, Church of England, 12th century origins but most late 13th to mid 14th century,. The church has a crenellated tower, and later battlements and pinnacles. There are monuments to Mrs Sapcotes Harington, d.1619, and Richard Dodwell, d.1726
  • The Grange
• Green Street
  • Baptist Chapel, 1827, founded by Thomas Marriott (b.Denton 1789 d.Milton 14 June 1876) and buried in the churchyard of the chapel).
  • The Manse (next to the chapel), residence of Marriott as Pastor
  • Milton Parochial Primary School
  • Welstead Farm House
  • The Old Bakehouse
  • The Compass Public House
• Malzor Lane
  • Milton Manor House not to be confused with The Manor in Rectory Lane. Nick Raynsford, Labour Party MP for Greenwich was brought up here. The house has a notable 17th century staircase with acanthus scrolls similar to work at Lamport Hall and Castle Ashby
• High Street
  • Old Primitive Methodist Chapel, 1865, now used as a private residence
  • War Memorial, ca.1920 on the Village green
  • Milton Grove, now Grove House, former residence of Thomas Marriott
  • Stockwell Farm House, ca.1653
  • Village Pound marked with a plaque stating in existence since at least 1686
• Towcester Road
  • The Greyhound Public House
  • The former Hope Brewery, now converted to offices. In 1892 Phipps Northampton Brewery Company acquired the business from East Brothers. In 1906 NBC it was closed moving production to Northampton, Bridge Street, now the site of the Carlsberg brewery
  • The Counties Crematorium, erroneously referred to as being in Milton, is now actually outside the parish about a mile north of the village and north of the M1 in West Hunsbury, Northampton with the Northampton borough postcode NN4 9RN