The Drawing Room reception room in Milford House, measuring over twelve metres long it had two fireplaces. The windows the Pleasure Gardens and the fountain and are low to give maximum view into the gardens. The decoration of blue, gold with lighter blue on the ceiling and the lincrusta above the picture rail matches the original Milford House decoration. The curtains are from the State Entrance Hall of Hillsborough Castle, and are copied from curtains in the Saloon at CastleCoole Co. Fermanagh. Robert Garmany McCrum displayed twenty eight of his important collection of 19th century paintings in the Drawing Room.

The magnificent chandeliers made in 1898, are three of the original four chandeliers that were in Milford House Drawing Room and are by Everard and Co of Lewisham. Since Milford was the first in the country to have hydroelectricity this makes these chandeliers the earliest electric light fittings in Ireland! The chandeliers remained in Milford House Drawing Room until after 1966 when the property became Manor House Special Care Hospital They were removed by the Hospital Authorities and stored in Tower Hill Armagh. They were purchased by an Assistant Matron at Manor House Special Care and remained in storage in a cow shed two miles from Milford. She purchased three no one knows what became of the third. They were purchased in 2016 by the current owner who gave them on loan to Milford Buildings Preservation Trust. They have been restored to their former glory thanks to funding from Northern Ireland Museums Council and Milford Buildings Preservation Trust

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