Description

SU 94SE WITLEY C.P. PORTSMOUTH ROAD
Milford

4/290 Milford House Hotel
9/3/60
II

House, now hotel and restaurant. Circa 1730, altered and extended in mid-C18,
late C18 and to west in circa 1840. Red brick with stone dressings and,
originally,a hipped slate roof. Two storeys over cellar with attic storey
added. Five bay classical front with one bay extension set back to left and
three window range, one and a half storeys high, to right end. Stacks to
left and right of centre and to rear. Stone plat band over basement plinth
and modillioned cornice over first floor, pedimented to centre three bays with
keystoned lunette in tympanum. Stone coped parapet over attic storey with
panelled end piers over block rusticated angle piers. Originally glazing bar
sash fenestration, of later C18 date, now destroyed, although window openings
remain with stone cills and gauged brick heads; keystones to centre. Five
windows on attic and first floors, four on ground floor, all with gauged
brick aprons. Cambered heads to basement windows. Four stone steps to
pedimented and block rusticated columned door surround, now boxed in. Gutted
by fire in 1983 with interior features destroyed and roof removed, a shell at
the time of re-survey.

Listing NGR: SU9515142291

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533935

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)