Ditton Hall

Ditton Hall is a house dating from around 1635, possibly built for Thomas Willys. It incorporates the main range of an earlier 15th-century building with an upper hall. The structure features red brick, timber-frame elements, and 19th-century gault brick, topped with plain tile roofs. It has two storeys with attics and an irregular U-plan that includes a surviving wing and stair turret from a symmetrical house that was partly demolished around 1820.

The garden facade has three bays, with three Dutch gables—two of which have flat tops flanking a central round-headed gable. There is an ogee-moulded brick string at the first floor and attic floor levels, along with a plinth. The facade includes three 19th-century hung sash windows on the first floor, two on the ground floor, and three two-light attic casement windows with original brick labels. A central late 19th-century closed porch features glazed garden doors and a shaped parapet, masking one bay of the original three-bay loggia with brick pilasters and elliptical arches with brick keys. The main entrance has been relocated to the south facade.

The interior, detailed in a report by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, includes a fine 17th-century staircase with six flights, panelling, chimney pieces, and the wall frames and open trusses of the 15th-century upper hall, which still show traces of later painted decoration.