Milton House

Milton House is a house dating from the 17th century, with significant additions circa 1768 by William Cole, the Rector of Milton, and a further extension circa 1900 to the north-west. The house is constructed of timber framing with plaster, 18th-century local brick, and reused medieval limestone, with plain tile roofs. A red brick ridge stack features four grouped diagonal shafts; a modern end stack is visible to the north-west. The original three-unit plan was rearranged by Cole, who raised the roof and added a gallery, hall, and kitchen wing to the north-east. Around 1900, the main range was extended with a matching bay and replastered with rough cast panels.

The garden facade has four gabled dormer windows, two original 18th-century and one modern. It also features two-storey canted bay windows with eight- and twelve-paned hung sash windows, with pattern glazing bars in the top lights of the ground floor windows and eight-paned hung sash windows. A half-glazed door is present. The south-east elevation incorporates an 18th-century two-storey bay window. The street elevation exhibits a main entrance with an 18th-century six-panelled door in a moulded doorcase, and three 18th-century cross-framed casement windows with leaded lights. The brick gable of the kitchen wing includes carved medieval stones from Archbishop Rotherham's Gateway (1480-1500) from the Old University Schools and an inscription reading “COLE MILTON 1776 HOUSE DEUM”.

The interior features an open string staircase with wall panelling following the rake of the handrail. Early 17th-century panelling on both floors is believed to have been taken from The Halls, Haddenham. The interior showcases boxed ceiling beams, 18th-century chimney pieces, and panelled doors, alongside 18th-century gault floor tiles. A buffet in the kitchen, along with Cole’s drawing, was recently removed.