Milton Hall

TL 4862-4962 MILTON CHURCH LANE (North Side)

17/115 Milton Hall 27.l0.82 GV II

Small country house. c.1772, built for Rev Dr Knight, Canon of Ely. Gault brick, stone dressings. Low pitched hipped slate roofs. Symmetrical arrangement of central three storey block of three 'bays' with end stacks, flanked by two storey single 'bay' wings raised over basement with deep plinth; kitchen wing of two storeys to north-east. Semi-circular rear elevation of central block reflected in over plan of first and second floors. Wooden eaves cornices with dentil enrichment. Main elevation; three second floor, four-paned and central six-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered gauged brick arches. Similar first and ground floor windows with eight- and twelve-panes. Tuscan porch approached by stone steps originally semi-circular in plan; round arched brick doorway with patterned fanlight and wide six-panelled door. Some C18 mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights to rear of kitchen wing. Interior. Geometric planned open string staircase with square balusters and mahogany hand rail lit by oval stair light with cast iron glazing bars. Original panelled mahogany and painted doors with some C19 attic doors; dentil cornice with composite pilasters and marks for two missing columns in panelled entablature in ground floor room of south west wing. Kitchen with sealed cooking hearth and stop-chamfered ceiling beams also in servants' hall and scullery. Servants stair. Brick vaulted basement. Some alterations to north-east wing and kitchen wing were made c.1955. Clay, W.K. History of Milton, 1869

Listing NGR: TL4806962956