Ditton Hall
DITTON HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127399
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Ditton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DITTON HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127399
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Ditton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DITTON HALL, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DITTON HALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fen Ditton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48183 60292
Details
TL 4860-4960 FEN DITTON HIGH STREET (South Side)
18/23 Ditton Hall 31.8.62
GV II*
House. c.1635 possibly built for Thomas Willys incoporating the main range of an early C15 building with upper hall. Red brick, timber-frame, and C19 gault brick. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics, irregular U-plan includes surviving wing and stair turret of a symmetrical planned house partly demolished c.1820. (Reconstruction R.C.H.M. Relhan C.A.S. water colours). Garden facade of three 'bays'; three Dutch gables, two with flat tops flanking central round-headed gable, ogee-moulded brick string at first floor and attic floor, plinth. Three first floor and two ground floor C19 hung sash windows and three two-light attic casement windows with original brick labels. Central late C19 closed porch with glazed garden doors and shaped parapet masks one bay of original three bay loggia with brick pilasters, elliptical arches with brick keys. Main entrance resited in south facade. Interior detailed in R.C.H.M. report, includes fine C17 staircase of six flights, panelling and chimney pieces, the wall frames and open trusses of the C15 upper hall with traces of later painted decoration. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs pp 52, 53, mon. 2. Country Life, Vol. 136, No. 3525, p. 764. Country Life, Vol. 136, No. 3526, p. 834. Harrison, R. Hist of Fen Ditton, 1956. C.C. Relhan, R. (1754-1823) watercolour S.W. view. C.A.S. Collection
Listing NGR: TL4818360292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, R, History of Fen Ditton, (1956)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 136, (), 764 834
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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