Denford Park, Kintbury - Hungerford Virtual Museum

DenfordPark, Kintburv, Berkshire
Sir Thomas Hughes moved to Eddington House, a mile or so the north east of
Denford Park, and also had a town house at 12 Hyde Park Gardens in London; he
remarried in 1952 and died six years later. 48
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By the end of the 1940's Denford Park had been sold to the Convent of the Holy
Sepulchre in Chelmsford; initially converted into a convent, by November 1949 the
organisation were planning to convert it into a boarding school - though the plans
were not passed by the local authority until 1952. The architects used for the
conversion, alterations and extension additions required were a local practise in
Hungerford, Sutton, Griffin & Sweetnam.
The new school was also relatively short-lived for in 1967 the site was bought by the
Norland College, a residential establishment for the training of 'nannies'; in the next
35 years the college also made further alterations and extensive additions to the site
before changing needs led to its removal to Bath at the start of the 21 st century and the
sale of Denford Park in 2002.
P1.6: The mosaic commemorating the centenary of Norland College,
inserted into the earlier stone paving of the portico.
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Richard KMorriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, BromJow House, Bromlaw, Shropshire SYS OEA