Ditton Lea and Walls, Railings and Gates Attached to Front and Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House.
Ditton Lea and Walls, Railings and Gates Attached to Front and Rear
- WRENN ID
- narrow-cellar-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ST 360 144
- Coordinates
- 50.9255, -2.91084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ditton Lea is a house built in the mid-18th century, with alterations made around 1800 and 1860. It is constructed from Ham Hill stone ashlar, featuring stucco side wings and rubblestone returns, with rubblestone and brick at the rear and a slate roof. The house has a double-depth plan with rear outshuts and stands two storeys high, presenting a symmetrical three-window range. The windows have keyed flat stone arches over 8/8-pane sashes. The doorcase, dating from around 1860, is in the Regency style and includes a pediment, overlight, and a six-panel door; there are signs of an earlier, steeper-pitched pediment.
At the front, there are 20th-century single-storey wings with parapets that rise to meet the main structure. The first-floor windows at the rear feature unused wooden lintels positioned one course above the current windows. A single-storey addition from around 1800 at the rear includes a canted bay from 1860 on the left and a cast-iron trellised conservatory from 1860 on the right. Inside, the skirtings and doors are from the mid-18th century, while reeded cornices, a white marble fire-surround in the ground-floor left room, and some elliptical arches date to around 1800. The staircase, with turned balusters and newels, features a stair-window with coloured margin panes and a marble fire-surround in the ground-floor right room, both from around 1860.
The property also includes cast-iron gates and square-section open trellis gate piers at the front, which curve towards a former coach entrance on the left return. High brick walls, approximately 30 meters by 50 meters, enclose the back garden.
Local climate
Ditton Lea and Walls, Railings and Gates Attached to Front and Rear receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings