Milward House

Milward House is an attached house, now offices, and a former Friends' Meeting House dating to the mid-18th century, with a late 18th-century addition and minor 19th-century alterations. The elevations are constructed from ashlar stone to the main range, while the north-west wing is rendered. The building has pantile roofs, with a mid-ridge brick stack and a stone gable stack base at the north-west end. It follows a double-depth plan, featuring a central staircase hall and a rear staircase to the main range.

The building is two storeys high and consists of a four-window, mid-18th-century range complemented by a two-storey, two-window range forming the later north-west wing. The main range displays a plinth, a ground-floor sill band, chamfered quoins, a cornice, and a blind parapet, topped with an end-gabled roof that includes hipped and half-hipped sections to the rear. This design is carried through to the slightly projecting north-west wing. The windows of the main range are sixteen-pane sashes in plain reveals with sills to the first floor, with the exception of the window above the doorway, which is a twelve-pane sash. The windows of the later wing are twelve-pane sashes with dressed stone architraves. An unusual 19th-century window, likely a former doorway, is located at ground-floor level where the two ranges meet; it is triangular in plan with fixed lights and a weathered ashlar head.

The rear elevation is two storeys high and features a five-window range of five elements with hipped and half-hipped roofs. A wing projects to the east, followed by a four-window range to the west, which has projecting outer bays, a recessed centre, and a two-storey ashlar canted bay to its right. The rear elevation largely features late 20th-century casement windows, although the original mid-18th-century staircase sash window, featuring intersecting Y-tracery to its head, remains. The canted bay incorporates mid-19th-century eight-pane sashes, while the first floor of the left outer bay has early 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes, and the recessed section has a late 18th-century twelve-pane sash.

The interior retains an early 19th-century decorative scheme. The central entrance hall showcases palmette decoration to the frieze and doorcase. An elliptical archway, featuring similar decoration, leads to the staircase hall, which has a bracketed cornice and an open well stair with a wreathed handrail, a columnar newel, plain stick balusters, a bracketed open string, a wall string, and a dado. The front right-hand room on the ground floor has a water-leaf and palmette cornice, and similar traces of cornice are visible in the front left-hand room.