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* Rectory Lane, formerly Pluck's Lane
** Milton House (early 18th century) and Manor Cottage (1777) attached on the east side, Grade II listed. The house has a doorway with [[Tuscan order|Tuscan columns]]<ref name = "Pevsner">{{Cite book | author=Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision)| authorlink= | coauthors= | title=The Buildings of England &ndash; Northamptonshire| year=1961 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=London and New Haven | isbn=978-0-300-09632-3 | pages=306–7}}</ref>{{Ref label|view|a|a}}<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-234935-milton-house-and-manor-cottage-milton-ma British Listed Buildings, Accessed 22 December 2014]</ref>
** Mortimers,{{Ref label|view|a|a}} Grade II listed, early 18th century<ref name = "Telegraph"/> earlier than Milton House,<ref name = "Pevsner"/> 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.<ref name ="Evans">[http://www.prestoungrange.org/core-files/archive/story_milton_malzor/chpt_1.pdf "The Story of Milton Malzor ''[[sic]]''", Revd B Edward Evans, MA, [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]], {{ISBN|1-85598-026-6}}, first published 1924 as a subscribers edition by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co Ltd, 3 & 4 Paternoster Bldgs, London EC4 (destroyed in the [[The Blitz|Blitz]]). [[Facsimile]] reprint 1997 by MCB University Press Ltd, 60-62 Toller Lane, [[Bradford]], [[West Yorkshire]] BD8 9BY as a subscribers edition of 500 copies]</ref> The house and its grounds were auctioned on 17 March 2011<ref name = "Telegraph">[httphttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8380470/Country-bargains-Could-this-be-the-buy-of-a-lifetime.html "Country bargains: Could this be the buy of a lifetime? A period house frozen in time may be the perfect country gem, finds Maria Fitzpatrick" ''Sunday Telegraph 15 March 2011'']</ref> fetching a total of £1,115,000, but with the house requiring substantial refurbishment. According to the local paper<ref name = "C&E">[http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/saints_founder_s_home_up_for_sale_1_2503206 "Saints’ founder’s home up for sale" ''Northampton Chronicle & Echo'' 19 March 2011]</ref> the house was once lived-in by Revd [[Samuel Wathen Wigg]], a local clergyman and curate of St. James Church in Northampton the founder of [[Northampton Saints]] Rugby Football Club. Prior to the 2011 sale, the house previously sold in 1921, and lived in by the Alexander family, laterly by Margaret Alexander, granddaughter of Wigg.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-234937-mortimers-milton-malsor-northamptonshire British Listed Buildings, Accessed 22 December 2014]</ref>
** Milton Malsor Manor, Grade II listed, 16th century,<ref name = "BEvans">{{cite web|title = The Manor in Rectory Lane|url = http://www.prestoungrange.org/prestoungrange/html/milton_malsor/milton_malsor.html|accessdate = 9 February 2008}}</ref> [[James Harrington (author)|James Harrington]], the author of the controversial book "The Commonwealth of Oceana", published 1656, was a former occupant<ref>{{cite web|title = Milton Malsor Historical Society - History Trail|url = http://www.miltonmalsorhistory.org.uk/history_trail/|accessdate = 14 February 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214160942/http://www.miltonmalsorhistory.org.uk/history_trail/|archivedate = 14 December 2007}}</ref> and the building has a [[blue plaque]] in recognition, installed on 4 October 2008.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-234933-manor-house-milton-malsor-northamptonshi British Listed Buildings, Accessed 22 December 2014]</ref>
** Dovecote and Stable with coach house doors, Milton Malsor Manor, grade two listed. 18th-century with older origins and 20th-century alterations.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-234934-dovecote-at-manor-house-milton-malsor-no British Listed Buildings, Accessed 22 December 2014]</ref>