Ditchley (Kilmarnock, Virginia)

Ditchley
Ditchley, HABS Photo
Location 1571 Ditchley Road, Kilmarnock, VA 22482
Coordinates 37°44′01″N 76°20′11″W / 37.73361°N 76.33639°W / 37.73361; -76.33639Coordinates: 37°44′01″N 76°20′11″W / 37.73361°N 76.33639°W / 37.73361; -76.33639
Area 156 acres (63 ha)
Built 1762 (1762)
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP reference # 92001272[1]
VLR # 066-0004
Significant dates
Added to NRHP September 24, 1992
Designated VLR April 22, 1992[2]

Ditchley is a historic plantation house located near Kilmarnock, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built in 1762, and is a two-story, Georgian style brick mansion with a hipped roof. It consists of a five bay main block flanked by one-story wings. The house was renovated and modernized in the 1930s by noted philanthropist Jessie Ball duPont (1884-1970). Also on the property are two contributing smokehouses and the Lee family cemetery and site of a kitchen building.[3]

Original built in 1687. This plantation was a grant to Col. Richard Lee I and was named for a Lee estate near Oxford, England. House was built by Kendall Lee, grandson of Richard Lee and son of Captain Hancock Lee, Hon. (1653–1709) and Mary Kendall (1661–1694).[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Calder Loth (March 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ditchley" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ https://www.loc.gov/item/csas200905356/


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