Denford Park, Kintbury - Hungerford Virtual Museum

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3.1.1.04 The East Elevation
The east elevation was always different to the west elevation because of the position
of the service wings. The present East Wing probably replaced most of the nearest
part of the service wing of the house, but even so the position of the existing windows
in the short section of this wall that is still external shows that it would not have
matched the west elevation.
There are single window openings at ground and first-floor levels on the return from
the south, or garden, front. These are set significantly further away from the south
front than the answering windows on the west return (see above).
There are no indications in the masonry that they have been reset in their present
positions. This is further evidence that a service wing on this side of the house was
part of the original layout.
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In this elevation the ground-floor window has been replaced by a French window hi
the same aperture, extended down to the floor. The original architrave survives and
«, was copied in the new section beneath the original sill.
3.1.2 The Roof
The roof is hidden behind the low parapet; it could not be examined internally at the
time of the survey but is assumed to be more or less primary apart from where
alterations have been needed to accommodate the later wings to either side.
It is essentially a quadrangular hipped structure with low pitched piles covered in slate
around a central axial valley; the bowed projection of the garden front is covered by
an independent facetted dome, probably covered in lead sheet that breaks into the
southern pile of the roof structure.
There are four symmetrically dispersed ridge stacks, of Bath stone, rising from the
two cross-walls, one to each pile of the building. These have moulded plinths and
projecting cornices. Those on the south side are slightly longer than those to the north.
3.13 The Interior
Apart from the portico, the interior is divided, structurally, into six compartments
formed by two parallel cross-walls and a cranked spine wall. All of the other
partitions are either later or'less substantial. The house is of two grand storeys with
no indication of any cellarage under this section, or of any useable attic space within
thereof space.
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Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA