<strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong>. Kintburv. Berkshire The Dining Room The room to the east of the Saloon on the south front was almost certainly the original Dining room and is listed as such on the 1924 Sales Particulars. Latterly is has been known as the Study Centre. —. The room has a boarded floor, but of narrow floorboards, probably of mid-20 century date. It retains a moulded skirting board and has a moulded dado rail - both of which could be original - but there is no surviving cornice and the ceiling is quite flat. The doorway from the Saloon is one of two in this room's long west wall, the other, at the north end, leading off the Entrance Hall. Both have matching pedestalled door cases, panelled reveals, and veneered doors with central bead; both doors have evidence of change to their escutcheons but retain what seems to be some of the original door furniture. A third doorway and door in the east wall, opposite the northern one in the west wall, appears to be of the same date and design but may not necessarily be in situ. It now leads into the East Wing (Building B2). The room is lit by two windows, one in the south front and another - actually a French window - in the east return. The south window has a pedestalled architrave and simply panelled shutters. The French window has a clumsier reveal probably remodelled when an original window was converted - probably as recently as the 1939 alterations. Cuts on either side in the skirting board and dado rail indicate that this alteration is later in date than they are. I The room did have a fireplace on the west wall, and this was described as being having a 'Carved Marble Mantlepiece' in the 1924 Sales Particulars. It has since been removed and the recess used as a low cupboard. For some reason, both of the opposing northern doors are set into a shallow projection from the main wall line. These are, nevertheless, respected by the skirting board and the dado rail. One possibility may be that these doorways were originally on either side of a passageway leading from the Entrance Hall into the predecessor of the present East Wing and that at a later date the wall between this and the then smaller, but better balanced, Dining Room, Was removed and a replacement corridor created to the north. However, judging from the dimensions in the 1924 Sales Particulars, if such a change did indeed take place, it had already done so. -28- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
<strong>Denford</strong><strong>Park</strong>, Kintburv, Berkshire PI. 14: The former Dining Room looking north; note odd projections around the doors. PI. 15: Detail of door furniture - and evidence of change. -29- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
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