The Milestone Hotel

The Milestone Hotel is a substantial house forming part of a terrace, built between 1883 and 1884. Designed by J.J. Stevenson, it is constructed in a Flemish Revival style using red brick with pink terracotta dressings. The roof was lost due to fire damage. The building is three storeys high plus a roof storey and has an irregular facade of seven bays. The main entrance is within a projecting porch in the third bay from the right, featuring a rusticated architrave and scrolled cartouche above a cornice, with a segmental-headed carriage entrance to the left. The ground floor has round-headed windows, while those above are square headed; the first-floor windows have terracotta architraves and scrolled pediments, and the third-floor windows have moulded terracotta features above the heads. Attic windows have 2-light casements (with sashes to the second and third floors), plate glass, and a three-bay canted bay window to the right of the ground floor. The left-hand bay forms a corner 'turret' that corbels out at the first floor, with a decorative terracotta top stage and a lead-covered ogee dome. The facade to the left of the turret is divided between two scrolled gables, each with an oval window in the apex, decorative architraves, and a cornice above the second floor. Three tall, moulded chimneys are present.