Listed Building record MDO22167 - The Old House, Milton on Stour, Gillingham

ST 79642819. The Old House, Milton-on-Stour, extensively rebuilt in the early 19th century, retains elements of a late 17th century building. The 19th century house is of two storeys with walls of squared and coursed rubble. The north front incorporates walls perhaps of 17th century origin. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 34 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(76) THE OLD HOUSE (79642819), extensively rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century, retains elements of a late 17th-century building. The 19th-century house is of two storeys, with walls of squared and coursed rubble, and roof-coverings of tile and slate. The E. front has stone windows of two and three transomed lights with plain labels; near the centre is an ashlar porch with a heavy moulded entablature supported on two octagonal stone columns with moulded capitals and with recessed panels on each face of the shafts. The N. front incorporates walls, perhaps of 17th-century origin, with chamfered square-headed stone windows of two and of three lights.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202335 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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