Milton House, 54 Main Street, Milton Of Balgonie

Milton House, located at 54 Main Street in Milton of Balgonie, is a classical house built in 1797. It is two storeys high with an attic and features a three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is dressed ashlar with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, complemented by quoin strips and stone cills. Architectural details include a base course, eaves course, moulded cornice, and blocking course.

The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central projecting porch with a flat roof and cornice. This porch has windows to the north and east, and a panelled timber door with a two-leaf fanlight on the west side. There are windows in the bays to the right and left of the centre. The first floor has regular fenestration with a pediment that breaks the eaves at the centre, and piended dormer windows on either side.

The south elevation is also symmetrical, with a modern glazed door to the right of centre and a window to the left. Above, there is a large stair window at the centre and additional windows in the outer bays on the first floor.

The east elevation is blank at ground level, with a pedestrian gate on the outer right, a window to the left on the first floor, and a blocked window to the right.

The west elevation features a flat-roofed extension at ground level, with a blank upper section. The house has a 12-pane glazing pattern in the timber sash and case windows of the porch, while modern small-pane glazing is used in the top-opening windows elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar gablehead stacks with moulded cans, as well as ashlar coped skews with block skewputts.

Inside, the house has an inner hall with a part-glazed timber door featuring etched glass and a fanlight. The hall includes a dado rail and a twisting stone stair with a timber handrail, decorative timber balusters, and a ball finialled newel post. The sitting room has dentilled cornicing and two delicate fan motifs, while the first-floor bedroom and attic room feature plain cornicing and a cast iron horse shoe grate with a timber surround. Working shutters are also present.

The property is complemented by pyramid-coped ashlar gatepiers with panelled faces and stop-chamfered arrises, along with coped rubble boundary walls.