Milford Hall Farmhouse

Milford Hall Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse, likely dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. It is situated in Little Ness, near Milford.

The main structure is timber-framed with plaster and painted brick infill, with some brick laid in a herringbone pattern. Sections have been rebuilt in painted brick. The roof is slate covered. The timber framing features closely-spaced studs, a middle rail, and long straight tension braces. The rear wing has square panels, extending from the sole plate to the wall plate. The house has a T-shaped plan, comprising two main framed bays and a two-bay wing to the west. It rises two storeys with a gable-lit attic.

The east front has shaped bargeboards to the gable ends, topped with finials. A small brick stack is located at the rear of the ridge to the right, while a large old brick ridge stack sits at the junction with the wing at the rear, consisting of three star-shaped shafts with weathering at the base and a pitched-roof link to the attic. It has a three-window front with leaded wooden cross windows that have bracketed hoods. A left-hand ground-floor window has been removed and the opening blocked. An early 19th-century door, with six beaded flush panels (the top two glazed), a Gothic over-light with panelled spandrels, a plain surround with shaped brackets supporting a gabled hood, is located between the first and second windows from the right.

The left-hand gable end has a slightly jettied first floor with a restored billet-ornamented bressummer and a former jettied gable featuring carved scrolled brackets at each end of the tie-beam. A small attic casement and a 20th-century ground-floor flat-roofed square bay are also present. The right-hand gable end has a slightly jettied gable with carved scrolled brackets supporting the tie-beam, which has a carved lozenge ornament to the chamfer. A small leaded attic window, a blocked first-floor window, a leaded 2-light wooden staircase window, and a ground-floor leaded cross window are also present.

The north side of the rear wing has two leaded casements to each floor and a central boarded door with a pedimented hood and lean-to porch. The interior features a collar and tie-beam truss in the gable end to the right. A lower timber-framed addition dating to the later 17th century extends to the west, with an integral brick end stack and a collar and tie-beam end truss with queen struts.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room has ogee-moulded beams with run-out stops, while the right-hand ground-floor room has a chamfered beam. There is reordered 17th-century panelling in the entrance hall and 17th-century panelled doors throughout. A ground-floor rear room has chamfered beams, plain joists and an old fireplace with a chamfered lintel. An early 19th-century staircase is also present.