Main Building, Courtyard Walls, Stable And Gatehouse Blocks, Admiralty Compass Observatory At Ditton Park

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

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1. 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