Constructed in limestone in a Gothic Revival style, the main block is L-shaped with projecting gables and a high, steep roof containing several dormer windows.

During the Second World War the hall was used as a base for Special Operations Executive, a small grass landing strip being laid in the grounds.

[4] A plaque at the Hall honours the members of the United States Eighth Air Force (including Major Glenn Miller) who were stationed there.

The plaque reads: In memory of all the personnel who served in World War II at Milton Ernest Hall Headquarters USAAF Eighth Air Force Service Command Station 608 1943-1946, Also Major Glenn Miller & the Band of the Allied Expeditionary Force who were stationed here from July to December 1944[citation needed]After the US Air Force vacated the Hall, it remained empty until 1968, when Ludwik Dobrzański (he died in 1990) purchased the property along with the surrounding grounds for £15,000.

Benjamin Helps Starey (1807-1874) who built Milton Ernest Hall in 1856 was a wealthy London merchant.

In 1853 Benjamin bought the Milton Ernest Estate and three years later asked his brother in law to build a new house.

[7] In 1872 the Starey family were forced to sell the Hall because of some financial disasters on the stock exchange.

However there were obviously some strong ties to the property because fifty years later his son John bought the house back.

[11] In 1905 her daughter Mary Elizbeth Robinson was married to Captain Christopher Barnes in Church of All Saints, Milton Ernest and a reception held at the Hall.

[12] In 1906 the house was sold to Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1869-1935) who had just returned from India where he had served as Governor of Madras for six years.