Listed Building: MILTON MANOR HOTEL (103562)

MILTON ABBAS MILTON PARK Milton Manor Hotel ST 80 SW 3/146 GV II Marked on OS Map as Hill House. Country house, now used as hotel. Original (centre) section a mid-C19 cottage; enlarged in early C20 in Arts and Crafts style. Rear range has roughcast walls, slate roofs part hipped, part gabled, roughcast stacks. Part 2-storeys, part single storey. Front range has walls of rubble stone up to first floor level with stone slate hanging above, stone slate hipped roof, 4 rubble stone stacks along ridge, those in centre set diagonally. One storey and attic. This range of E-plan form, with projecting gabled wings each end and central gabled porch. Each side of the porch, the roof of the centre section brought down to form a verandah. Open porch on octagonal stone piers supporting a canted lintel formed of stone slates set on edge. Glazed oak doors. Above these, in gable, a twin canted oriel window with lead lights and hipped roof, on a shaped oak bracket. Each side of porch, on ground floor, a 3-light stone mullioned window with lead lights. 2 gabled dormers in attic with oak mullioned windows with lead lights. In the wings at each end, ground floors each have a 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window with lead lights. Attics each have a 4-light oak mullioned window with lead lights. In rear wing the centre section has oak mullioned and transomed windows. Rear (service) block has plain sashes. Internally, the front range has an oak staircase in Jacobean style with heavy square turned balusters. 4-centred arched stone fireplace with Coats of Arms. Oak panelling in several rooms. Interesting example of Arts and Crafts design. Listing NGR: ST8120802194

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Jan 13 2020 9:55AM