Milford House Hotel

SU 94SE WITLEY C.P. PORTSMOUTH ROAD Milford

4/290 Milford House Hotel 9/3/60 II

House, now hotel and restaurant. Circa 1730, altered and extended in mid-C18, late C18 and to west in circa 1840. Red brick with stone dressings and, originally,a hipped slate roof. Two storeys over cellar with attic storey added. Five bay classical front with one bay extension set back to left and three window range, one and a half storeys high, to right end. Stacks to left and right of centre and to rear. Stone plat band over basement plinth and modillioned cornice over first floor, pedimented to centre three bays with keystoned lunette in tympanum. Stone coped parapet over attic storey with panelled end piers over block rusticated angle piers. Originally glazing bar sash fenestration, of later C18 date, now destroyed, although window openings remain with stone cills and gauged brick heads; keystones to centre. Five windows on attic and first floors, four on ground floor, all with gauged brick aprons. Cambered heads to basement windows. Four stone steps to pedimented and block rusticated columned door surround, now boxed in. Gutted by fire in 1983 with interior features destroyed and roof removed, a shell at the time of re-survey.

Listing NGR: SU9515142291