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Freestanding single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch originally forming part of St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, built c. 1858-60 and demolished post 1984 following damage from lightning strike. Porch possibly moved from another location to site and rebuilt. Pitched natural slate roof with stone ridge tiles, raised ashlar verges to gable ends having cut stone fleur-de-lys finials to gable apexes and moulded sandstone kneeler stones at eaves level, and with cut stone eaves course. Coursed rubble sandstone walls (rebuilt to the east elevation), mildly battered to base, having splayed stepped ashlar sandstone buttresses to corners with ashlar coping\skews over, tooled ashlar sandstone quoins. Pointed-arched window opening to the north elevation having chamfered dressed ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround, chamfered ashlar sandstone sill, and with cast-iron quarry glazed window with margin glazing bars. Pointed-arched doorway to the west gable end having staged chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, and with hoodmoulding over; reused pointed-arched doorway to the west gable end having staged chamfered ashlar sandstone surround. Modern metal gates to doorways. Bell metal bell to interior. Set back from road in hillside site to the west of the centre of Milford. Graveyard to the east and south-east of site having collection of mainly upstanding gravemarkers of mainly twentieth century date. Detached modern single-bay single-storey workman’s hut to the west corner of site having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble sandstone walls (reused from former church to site) with reused flush ashlar sandstone quoins to corners, square-headed doorway to the east elevation having reused ashlar sandstone block and start surround with modern metal gate. Site (on irregular-plan) surrounded by coursed rubble stone boundary walls with rubble stone soldier coping over. Gateway to the east of site comprising a pair of partially rebuilt gate piers (on square-plan) having flush ashlar sandstone quoins to lower halves, ashlar plinths to base, rebuilt heads with pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Modern pedestrian gateway adjacent to the west of main gateway having reused squared and coursed sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) with pyramidal coping over, and with metal gate. Modern memorial stone (on square-plan) to boundary wall between gates commemorating former church to site.
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