Milcote Manor

Milcote Manor is a manor house incorporating elements from the 16th century, largely rebuilt in the 18th century, and extended in the early 19th century. The house stands on a moated site. The rear left half is constructed of ashlar with a timber-frame and brick infill first floor; the right half is 18th-century brick on a rubble plinth; and the front range is 19th-century brick. The roof is tiled, with two front gables, and features three brick stacks, one with a shaft built on coursed blue lias rubble. The building follows a double-depth plan.

The front of the house is two storeys high with a two-window range and two gables. A central open-hipped porch leads to a 20th-century half-glazed door with side light. The segmental-headed windows have sills and 2-light small-paned casements. The left return has a gabled end of early 18th-century brick, with a plat band over the ground floor; a lateral stack to the right of centre includes rubble and some ashlar stones dated AD 1564, along with two square brick shafts and a cornice. Segmental-headed windows, with sills, are present: the left end has a wide ground-floor window with a 4-light 20th-century transomed casement, a similar 3-light casement on the first floor, and a 2-light casement in the attic. Windows with 2-light small-paned casements flank the stack. The right return exhibits ashlar and timber-frame construction. A segmental-headed entrance is flanked by a 20th-century small-paned half-glazed door to the left, and a late-20th-century canted bay window with 1:2:1-light casements to the right. The first floor has a small window and a larger window with a sill and 2-light small-paned casement, while a blocked 3-light wooden-mullioned window is visible on the right. A ridge stack boasts four clustered diagonal shafts. Rear elevations include a two-storey gabled projection with a hipped-slate-roofed canted bay window and segmental-headed window above, and a lateral stack to the right. The ashlar and timber-framed section on the left features a canopy over a small-paned half-glazed door and a window above; first-floor windows have sills and 2-light small-paned casements. Several ashlar stones in the rear elevation have carved strapwork and fluting, topped with an enriched cornice.

The interior was reportedly altered after an early 19th-century fire and in the 20th century. The carved stones are believed to be from the ruins of Mount Grevill, a house for which Sir Ludovic Grevill received a building license in 1567 but was never completed. It is speculated that either the manor house or Mount Grevill was burned down by Parliamentary forces in 1644.