Nether Milgate

Nether Milgate is a house dating from the 15th century. It is timber framed with rendered infilling and has a plain tile roof. The structure consists of four timber-framed bays, featuring an open hall of two equal bays with a one-storey bay at either end. The house stands two storeys high on a stone plinth, with the first floor jettied at both gable ends. Most of the visible studding is applied, broadly spaced, with tension braces. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped at both ends, with a gablet on the right. There is a brick stack on the front slope of the roof, off-centre to the right, and a large projecting brick stack on a stone base on the front elevation of the right end bay. The house has three gabled dormers, each with three-light casements, situated directly above three-light casements on the first floor. There is a 20th-century ribbed door to the left end and a larger 20th-century ribbed door under a wooden porch slightly to the right of the stack. At the rear, there are 20th-century wings made of reused timber, with the ground floor in red brick and the first floor timber-framed with plaster infilling.

Inside, the house features exposed beams and posts, with close-studded partitions. The hall beam has a moulded end, and there are moulded posts for the central truss and crown-post, along with a steeply cambered moulded tie-beam. A service door and an inserted 16th-century hall floor with moulded axial beams and cornice are present, as well as a large inglenook fireplace with chamfered stone jambs.