Millaton House

Millaton House is a country house dating from around the mid-19th century. Its internal layout was altered in the late 20th century. The house is constructed of stuccoed walls with rusticated quoins. It has a shallow pitched slate roof concealed behind a plain parapet with a modillion cornice. The house features numerous rendered brick stacks to both the main block and rear wings.

The plan consists of a central block with a rear wing on either side. Originally, the arrangement included a stairhall to the left of the main block, a principal room to its left extending along the garden front, a small room to the right of the stairhall, and a large reception room beyond that. The rear wings likely contained service rooms and servant’s accommodation, with a secondary staircase in the right-hand wing.

The symmetrical front has six windows, with a porch positioned in the second bay from the left. The first floor windows are 19th-century horned two-pane sashes without glazing bars. The ground floor features 19th-century French windows, all within eared architraves. The enclosed porch has pilasters with moulded capitals at each corner and two plain pillars flanking a 19th-century six-panel double door. This porch also features an entablature with a plain frieze and a modillion cornice. The right-hand front displays three windows resembling those on the first floor of the main block, with the two right-hand windows containing 12 panes each. A service wing projects at the rear, and the left-hand front overlooks the garden with a similar three-window arrangement. The rear wings form a courtyard.

Inside, the entrance hall and the large first-floor landing retain original plaster cornices with modillions. The staircase has square, chamfered, and stopped newels with finials. It has an open string with carved tread-ends, and paired balusters of barleytwist and spiral on vase design. Three round-headed arches with panelled responds lead from the hall at the rear. The two large rooms also have decorative cornices; the one on the right-hand side is more elaborate and features a ceiling rose.