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Ditchley
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Ditchley, HABS Photo
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Location	1571 Ditchley Road, Kilmarnock, VA 22482
Coordinates	37°44′01″N 76°20′11″W / 37.73361°N 76.33639°W / 37.73361; -76.33639
Area	156 acres (63 ha)
Built	1762 (1762)
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	92001272
VLR No.	066-0004
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 24, 1992
Designated VLR	April 22, 1992

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.

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).

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

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. 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. "Ditchley, Northumberland County, Virginia". Library of Congress.

External links

• Ditchley, State Route 607, Ditchley, Northumberland County, VA 19 photos and 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

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