It was built in 1874, and is a double-pile, two-story, brick house on a stuccoed brick foundation in the Gothic Revival style.

It features a two-story, gable roof entrance tower with clasping buttresses and pointed-arch openings.

It was built for William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton, whose wife, Lady Laura Milton, brought him from Britain to Alleghany County for his health.

[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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