Milton House

SD 95 SW 5/86 8.4.88

GARGRAVE MARTON ROAD (north side) Milton House

II

House, originally mill owner's. Early-mid C19 with later alterations. Pebble- dashed with ashlar dressings, roof of graduated Lakeland slate. 2 storeys, 5 symmetrical bays, central bay recessed. Stone plinth. Central doorway set in segmental-arched recess has c.1980 door, the upper portion with small-pane glazing, and ashlar architrave with panelled pilasters, frieze, cornice and blocking course. Tall ground-floor windows rising from plinth have unequally-hung 15 pane sashes, the surrounds similar to doorway but slightly plainer. 1st-floor windows on sill band have sashes with glazing bars, the central window in architrave as below but with panelled frieze, other windows in plain stone surrounds. Eaves band with paired gutter brackets. Roof hipped with end stacks and one across ridge to centre. Left return: leaves treatment returned; inserted French window and 1st-floor window. Rear and right returns less well detailed having thinner members to stone surrounds (which have tiestones) and plain gutter brackets to eaves; rear has three 2-pane sashes to ground floor and two tall 8-pane sashes above. Interior: doors of 6 raised and fielded panels; acanthus-type cornice to ground-floor right-hand room and trailing foliage to ceiling frieze. Open-well stair has open string square- section stick balusters and curtail to handrail; decorative light rose to landing and panelled reveals to landing windows which are supported by consoles; right- hand to floor room has Lions' heads in top corners of the original door and wall recess architraves.

Listing NGR: SD9251353937