The White Lion PH, Milford

The White Lion is a former coaching inn that originated in the 16th century, with a 17th-century cross-wing, 18th-century south-east extensions, and 19th-century refurbishment.

The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor re-fronted in brick and the first floor tile-hung, including courses of curved tiles. The roof is tiled with brick chimneystacks.

The original structure was a two-storey, three-bay gabled rectangular building aligned north-east to south-west. A 17th-century cross-wing containing a large room on each floor was added at the north-west end. During the 18th century, the south-east side was extended outwards and an outshot added at the south-west end. A single-storey extension was added around 1900 to the entrance front south of the cross-wing, probably replacing an earlier porch.

The north-west or entrance front is irregular, comprising seven bays. At the north end is the projecting two-storey cross-wing with a hipped roof, tile-hung on the first floor with some courses of curved tiles. The first floor has two metal casement windows, and the painted brick ground floor has two metal multi-pane casements. The adjoining set-back bay to the south, part of the 16th-century range, has a 19th-century four-light flat-roofed dormer. The ground floor features a projecting flat-roofed painted brick bar front with a modillion cornice. The two bays adjoining to the south were extended outwards in the late 19th century and have tile-hung gables with curved brick courses, casement windows with multi-pane metal casements, and a painted brick ground floor with a triple metal casement. At the south end is a cat-slide roof with a metal casement window and a half-glazed door.

The single-storey south-east side, also of painted brick, has a three-light metal casement window.

The south-east or rear elevation features three small 20th-century metal casement windows in the southern cat-slide roof. The adjoining 18th-century bay has a tile-hung gable and Flemish bond brickwork below, with a casement window on each floor. The adjoining bay to the north is gabled with 20th-century tile-hanging and brick. At the north end are two 18th-century bays with hipped roofs, tile-hung on the upper floor, each containing a casement window.

The north-west end is tile-hung and has two external brick chimneystacks, a small casement window, and a single-storey north projection with three windows on the north side and a 20th-century porch.

Interior entry from the north-west leads into the cross-wing, which contains an exposed chamfered spine beam with plain floor joists supported on a post and an internal partition with timber studs. A straight-flight staircase with a plain newel post leads from the kitchen in an 18th-century addition at the north-east end to the upper floor.

The upper floor retains the exposed 16th-century south-west end wall with studs, tie beam and three posts. The corridor displays exposed jowled trusses and wall-plate of the original south-east external wall, as well as an exposed curved wind-brace of the original north-west external wall. A series of 18th-century plank doors are visible. The south-western bedroom has a plank and muntin wooden screen separating it from the corridor and contains the tapering top of a brick chimneystack. The south-eastern bedroom, in an 18th-century addition, has two 18th-century cupboard doors flanking the chimneybreast. A further bedroom in the 16th-century wing has exposed jowled posts. A north bedroom contains a later 18th-century two-panelled door.

The roof structure of the 16th-century wing retains a clasped purlin roof with curved wind-braces and rafters, and a truss with curved wind-braces at the north end. A wattle and daub panel is visible in the second bay from the north. The 17th-century cross-wing has original rafters, collar beam and staggered purlins. The early 18th-century roof structure has original rafters without a ridge-piece.