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Description: | The site of Ditton Manor House was royal property from the reign of Edward IV to the mid-seventeenth century. Money from the estate was given to Queen Anne Boleyn and the house was a childhood home of Mary I. Later the manor became the property of the Dukes of Montagu and then the Dukes of Buccleuch.
This house was built in 1813-17, after a fire destroyed the old house in 1812. The architect, William Atkinson, appears to have retained the plan shape of the old building, when building the new house for the wife of the third Duke of Buccleugh.
The manor was bought by the Admiralty in 1917 as a base for their Compass Factory and it was where Robert Watson-Watt dreamt up radar. In 1997 the buildings were bought by Computer Associates.
The house is castellated and has rendered external walls, probably with the architect's own 'Atkinsons Cement'. In the middle of the west front there is a three-storey canted bay rising above the rest of the building with a handsome gothic cast iron balcony to the first floor drawing room. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Ditton Park ; Computer Associates ; Admiralty Compass Factory ; Robert Watson-Watt ; William Atkinson Houses ; | Temporal: | start=1813-01-01; end=2008-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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