Listed Building: MILFORD HOUSE HOTEL INCLUDING ORMONDE (1247272)

'BAKEWELL SK2168 MILL STREET 831-1/4/134 (East side) 20/05/74 Milford House Hotel including Ormonde (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET (North side) Milford House Hotel) GV II Hotel and private dwelling. Early C18 origin with early C19 garden front having mid-late C18 and late C19 side wings. Tooled ashlar to garden front; coursed sandstone and limestone laid in diminishing courses. Stone slate, concrete tile and Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3-storey, 3-window range garden front with earlier parallel range to rear; 2-storey, single-bay side wing on left; 2-storey wing projects from right side of garden front and has taller side wing to rear. Garden front: rusticated plinth and quoins. Central porch with arcade on half column having carved capital; lantern to right corner; cornice with blocking course. The porch is entered by a round-arched door in right return; inner doorway to right of a window in shared architrave beneath pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Sill bands and architraves to paired 2/2 sashes of diminishing heights; cornice over central first-floor window. String course beneath dentilled cornice which forms gutter. Gable copings; end stacks with ashlar plinths and cornices to brick shafts. Late C19 side wing on left: large quoins; sill bands; 1/1 sashes to mullioned window of 2 segmentally-arched lights; corbelled oriel bay window beneath gable with carved armorial crest and ball finials. Eaves cornice, coped end gable with apex ball finial; tall octagonal-flue brick stacks to rear of ridge. Mid-late C18 side wing on right: gabled front. Left return with a single and 2 pairs of bee boles with round-arched ashlar surrounds; lead down pipe with hopper dated 1767; late C19 4-light window to first floor left has king mullion, transom and pictorial stained glass. Ashlar stair turret in angle with garden front. Right return of this wing has external stone steps and round-arched windows of one and 2 lights in mullioned ashlar surrounds. Rear (facing Mill Street): evidence of early mullioned windows but now with various 6/6 sashes including 2 which form a stair window. INTERIOR: arched fielded-panel wall cupboard to rear of present dining room. Stained-glass window in right side-wing is dated 1877 and depicts daybreak and nightfall. Listing NGR: SK2167668758.'