Little Milford

Little Milford is an early 19th-century house with stucco walls and slate roofs, comprising a main range with associated service buildings and an earlier converted outbuilding.

The main house is a substantial square-plan structure of three storeys and two bays with a hipped close-eaved roof featuring a centre valley. The front elevation facing the river incorporates a three-storey canted bay to the left with 8-12-8-pane sashes on the main floors and 6-9-6-pane sashes to the top floor, all topped by a cornice. Thin turned columns at the angles of each floor and roughcast between floors provide vertical articulation. The right side is irregular in composition, unusually incorporating a stair window on the facade wall. The ground floor entrance is a 6-panel door with 2 flush panels and 4 fielded panels with rebated corners, featuring lattice glazing bars to the overlight and a plain raised surround. To the right at mid-height is a long arched stair light with a small-paned sash and radiating bars to the head. The top floor has a 9-pane hornless sash, aligned between the door and stair light. The left side wall is plain roughcast with a hornless sash on each floor. The rear elevation has a red brick wallface chimney. A projecting wing extends to the rear left with a slightly half-hipped roof end and a left side-wall brick chimney. The end wall of this wing has a 4-pane horned sash over a hornless tripartite 4-12-4-pane sash. The right side wall of the main house has similar hornless sashes to the upper floors set to the right, positioned above the rear roof of a low service wing. The service wing's front has a 9-pane small sash over a large 16-pane sash, a brick right end stack, and an outshut to the rear with a small window and door set into the angle with the main house.

To the right and set back is a lower range appearing to be an early 18th-century house converted to an outbuilding when the main house was constructed. Built of rubble stone with roughcast facing, it is a low two-storey structure. The front has two 19th-century plain loft windows above a 19th-century boarded door and window, with a paired window to the left of the door; the windows are fixed casements. The rubble gable end has a loft light over a lean-to. The rear right is a gable featuring a large square rubble stone chimney.

Backing onto the end of this early range is a large lofted outbuilding running parallel to the rear wing of the main house across a narrow courtyard. It has slightly higher eaves and ridge with imitation slates. The front elevation to the court displays three narrow horizontal lights set under the eaves and an unglazed 2-light with diagonally set bars. The ground floor has two coach entries with oak lintels and a boarded door to the right. The end gable has outside stone steps leading to the loft door with a window to the right. The rear has two similar long narrow loft windows and a ground-floor whitewashed rubble long lean-to running into the angle with the rear left of the early range, with a window, door, and window set to the left.

The interior of the main house features an open staircase to the left of the entrance hall with four flights, a ramped rail, square-section balusters, and scrolled tread ends. The ground-floor room to the left has a 6-panel door, plain cornice, and a 19th-century chimneypiece with roundels in the angles and a cast-iron grate. A big elliptical-arched recess with panelled pilasters is set on the side wall, with arches in the hall. A smaller room to the rear left contains a 19th-century cast-iron grate in the fireplace. The dining room in the rear wing has a 19th-century fireplace but retains two earlier large fielded-panelled 6-panel doors and rococo-style ceiling plasterwork in the corners and centre, suggesting a 18th-century room altered in the 19th century. A leather-covered door provides access to the service wing kitchen, and a small service stair to the rear is situated under the outshut roof. A six-panel door from the outshut leads into the older range. A two-panel fielded-panelled door from the kitchen provides access to a short corridor leading to the back door.

The lofted outbuilding contains six pegged oak collar trusses with notched collars, probably dating to the later 18th century; the low loft windows have shutters. Two doors at the end provide access into the loft of the earlier range. This range has five pegged collar trusses, one set against the wall of the service range of the main house. The ground floor of the early range contains some pine joists of uncertain date and no fireplace; the fireplace instead opens into the ground floor of the lofted outbuilding, with an oak lintel and a recess for copper in the corner.