Ditchley (Kilmarnock, Virginia)
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Ditchley | |
.jpg) Ditchley, HABS Photo | |
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| Location | 1571 Ditchley Road, Kilmarnock, VA 22482 |
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| Coordinates | 37°44′01″N 76°20′11″W / 37.73361°N 76.33639°W |
| Area | 156 acres (63 ha) |
| Built | 1762 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 92001272[1] |
| VLR No. | 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, progenitor of the Lee Family of Virginia, 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]
