| Ditchley | |
| Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
| Designated Other1 Date: | April 22, 1992[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 066-0004 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Location: | 1571 Ditchley Road, Kilmarnock, VA 22482 |
| Coordinates: | 37.7336°N -76.3364°W |
| Architecture: | Georgian |
| Added: | September 24, 1992 |
| Refnum: | 92001272 |
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.[2]
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).[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.