Ditton House And Attached Walls, Gate Piers And Gates

Ditton House is a house dating from around 1720, which was internally remodeled in the early 19th century. It is constructed from Ham Hill rubblestone with plain Ham Hill stone dressings, featuring a tarred slate roof on the main house and a pantile roof on the rear wing, with brick stacks at the ends. The house has a two-unit central-staircase plan with a rear wing to the right and stands two storeys tall, presenting a symmetrical five-window range. The entrance features a six-panel door beneath a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars, and there is a similar round-arched six-over-six pane sash window above, as well as one at the rear near the stairs. The remaining windows are six-over-six pane sashes set in square-headed architraves, with central stubs suggesting the possibility of original cross windows. The rear wing, although the same height, has three storeys, with horizontal sliding sashes on the second floor.

Inside, the house features an open-well open-string staircase with brackets and a c1800 wreathed handrail with reeded balusters. The hall floor is laid with flagstones, and both ground-floor rooms have 19th-century marble fireplaces. The loft in the main block, accessible by a steep narrow staircase, has wide oak floorboards and broken plaster on thatch, which has now been slated and tarred over.

Attached to the house are early 19th-century high rubblestone walls; the wall to the right has a crenellated top, while the one to the left features a Ham Hill stone coping. The central double gates, made of long and short railings, hang on cylindrical piers topped with shallow swept caps and flattened balls. Curving forward from the gates to connect with the side walls are low brick walls capped with stone, on which pointed railings alternate with low spikes, aligning with those on the gates.