Millmead House

Millmead House is a small country house built between 1904 and 1907 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll. It combines elements of Vernacular and Early Georgian classical styles. The house is constructed of coursed and part-snecked Bargate sandstone with red brick quoins and dressings, featuring tile-on-edge decorations over windows and to the eaves, and plain tiled roofs, some hipped and sweeping down to the eaves with hipped dormers. The layout is L-shaped, with a long wing to the left and a shorter range forming a forecourt to the right.

The wing to the left is single-storey with attics, containing two hipped roof dormers with 4-light leaded casement windows. A square ridge stack sits to the left, with a smaller stack to the right and a further stack at the junction of the two ranges. The eaves are staggered, with a brick-edged break to the left end, featuring a small two-light window and two larger 4-light windows, each with a dormer above and a window set under projecting eaves.

The entrance range to the right is two storeys and attic, with a hipped roof and a leaded casement dormer. It has rusticated brick quoins to the ends and a brick plat band above the first floor and moulded brick eaves. Two brick-dressed, two-light leaded casement windows are on the first floor. The front door is of six panels, recessed within a fine ashlar, pedimented surround with scroll brackets. A wooden framed "Arbor" is incorporated into the right-hand return front, with lintels set into the main wall resting on wooden columns on pedestals.

The rear elevation has two storeys and attics with hipped roof dormers and panelled end stacks. Rusticated brick quoins mark the ends, and pilaster piers support a central segmental open pediment. A plat band runs above the tall ground floor. There are four first-floor casements tucked under the eaves, and four large "cross" windows to the ground floor, each featuring segmental keystoned heads and linking impost bands. Double case-ment doors are centrally located on the first floor, beneath a keystoned head with an iron-railed balcony on brackets, which drops through the plat band. Tall double casement doors are on the ground floor. The house is situated within a garden designed by G. Jekyll.