MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK

MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK, DITTON PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319354
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK
Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK, DITTON PARK ROAD

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Date:: 2002-11-07
Reference:: IOE01/08828/14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319354
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK, DITTON PARK ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING, COURTYARD WALLS, STABLE AND GATEHOUSE BLOCKS, ADMIRALTY COMPASS OBSERVATORY AT DITTON PARK, DITTON PARK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Datchet
National Grid Reference:: TQ 00039 77920

Details

1. 5130 DATCHET DITTON PARK ROAD (west side)

Main Building, courtyard walls, stable and gatehouse blocks, Admiralty Compass Observatory at Ditton Park. TQ 0077 7/1

II GV

2. Rebuilt after fire of 1812 to include some remains of older house. 1813-1817, architect William Atkinson, pupil of James Wyatt. Cement rendered on brick early Gothic Revival style with turrets and crenellations. Main building with entrance courtyard surrounded by stables and gatehouses all within ancient moat. Entrance facade has three storey central portion, three windows with label moulds over. Central door between "Gothic" windows with two centred arches, and flanked by turrets and plain two storey one window wings with crenellated parapets. Garden front has full height octagonal bay window with Gothic cast iron balustrade to balcony at first floor. Interior: ground floor gallery has heavily modelled, vaulted plaster ceiling. Entrance hall has beamed plaster ceiling. Main stair has fine cast iron Gothic balustrade. Entrance courtyard is enclosed to north and south by C17 brick walls and C18 brick stable and gatehouses with rendered buttresses plinth and architraves. 'Gothicised' in C19. Central towers over large four-centred arch. Stableshave wood dock turret.

Listing NGR: TQ0003977920

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Legacy System number:: 40655
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.