Milton House

Milton House is a house, reputedly formerly the vicarage, probably dating from circa 1500, and remodelled in the late 16th century, early 17th century, early 18th century, and early 19th century, with 19th-century additions. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob walls, with a gable-ended slate roof. There are two rendered brick axial stacks. The building's plan reflects a complex development, the original layout not entirely clear due to numerous alterations. It likely began as a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with a lower end appearing to the left.

Few early features survive, including the remains of a smoke-blackened cruck truss, a 16th-century fireplace in the lower room, and an internal jetty at the lower end of the hall, over the passage. The hall has good quality 18th-century panelling, which suggests a slight remodelling at that time, followed by extensive alterations during the 19th century when the house was refenestrated, extended at the left-hand end, and had substantial rear additions built. These additions included a small stair projection to the rear of the passage, a kitchen wing behind the hall, an outshut behind the inner room, and a wing projecting to the rear of the lower end.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with a seven-window façade. It features late 19th-century eight-pane sashes at the centre, a contemporary sixteen-pane sash to the right on the first floor with French windows below, and an early 19th-century twelve-pane hornless sash to the left on the first floor, with a similar sixteen-pane sash below. A double-gabled, glazed conservatory porch, dating from the later 19th century, occupies the centre. The rear elevation has a mid-19th-century hipped roof wing to the left of centre, an outshot to its left, a smaller stair wing with a roundheaded window to its right, and a long wing projecting to the rear of the house.

The hall contains a two-stage, early 18th-century bolection moulded panelling on the front wall and a lower side partition. A beam projects above the latter with panelled decoration and carved with a robust trailing fruit and flower motif along its edge. Fielded two-panel shutters are fitted to the windows. The lower room has a large, 16th-century granite fireplace, roll-moulded with a Tudor arch. The room above this has complete, early 18th-century bolection moulded panelling. A Victorian staircase is present, featuring chamfered square newels with finals, a closed string, and turned balusters. The roof is largely a late 19th- or early 20th-century King post structure, with the exception of one smoke-blackened cruck truss cut off above a morticed arch-braced collar over the internal jetty. Although the exterior displays a plain 19th-century façade, the quality and early date of the internal features are noteworthy.