Milford House Hotel Including Ormonde

The Milford House Hotel, including Ormonde, is an early 18th-century building, originally a private dwelling and later adapted as a hotel. It has an early 19th-century garden front, with mid- to late 18th-century and late 19th-century side wings. The garden front is constructed of tooled ashlar, while the other elevations use coursed sandstone and limestone laid in diminishing courses. The roofs are covered with stone slate, concrete tile, and Welsh slate.

The building has a three-story, three-window range facing the garden, with a parallel, earlier range to the rear. A two-story, single-bay side wing is located on the left, and a two-story wing projects from the right side of the garden front, with a taller wing extending to the rear.

The garden front features a rusticated plinth and quoins. A central porch has an arcade on half columns with carved capitals, and a lantern in the right corner. A cornice with a blocking course tops the front. Entry to the porch is through a round-arched door in the right return, with an inner doorway to the right of a window set within a shared architrave, featuring a pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Paired two-over-two sash windows are set within architraves, with a cornice over the central first-floor window. A string course sits beneath a dentilled cornice that acts as a gutter. Gable copings and end stacks with ashlar plinths and cornices to brick shafts are also present.

The left-hand side wing, dating to the late 19th century, has large quoins and sill bands. A mullioned window, comprised of two segmentally-arched lights, is present, alongside a corbelled oriel bay window beneath a gable with a carved armorial crest and ball finials. An eaves cornice and coped end gable, topped with an apex ball finial, complete the features. Tall, octagonal-flue brick stacks rise from the rear ridge.

The mid- to late 18th-century side wing on the right has a gabled front. The left return contains single and pairs of bee boles, each with round-arched ashlar surrounds, a lead down pipe with a hopper dated 1767, and a late 19th-century four-light window to the first floor. This window features a king mullion, a transom, and pictorial stained glass. An ashlar stair turret is situated in the angle with the garden front. The right return of this wing incorporates external stone steps and round-arched windows with one or two lights in mullioned ashlar surrounds.

The rear elevation, facing Mill Street, shows evidence of earlier mullioned windows, now largely replaced with various six-over-six sash windows, including two that form a stair window.

Inside, an arched fielded-panel wall cupboard is located to the rear of the present dining room. A stained-glass window in the right side wing, dated 1877, depicts daybreak and nightfall.