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DenfordPark, Kintbury. Berkshire The Stair Hall The Stair Hall is a grand space to the west of the Entrance Hall and accessed through an arch-headed opening off it. The floor is of stone slabs, but smaller and a little less pristine than those in the Hall; it is possible that they are earlier and that they could even be primary. Around the space is a tall timber skirting board, and there is a full height window reveal in the north wall with proper architrave and a low window seat; the window shutters are similar to those in the former Library, having beaded moulds in the panelling. The cantilevered stone stairs rise along the south, west and north walls to end at a partly cantilevered landing along the east wall at first-floor level. The stairs are spacious and the 'goings' generous despite the use of several 'kites' at the changes in direction. The hand rail is of timber, possibly a hardwood, and the balustrade is of thin scantling iron profusely decorated. There is clear disturbance in the leaded fixings of the balustrade uprights to the stone treads. The character of the balustrade is also a little unusual for Wyattville and perhaps, even for Papworth, so it may well be a later replacement - perhaps as recently as 1939. Significantly, it is matched in the inserted borrowed light opening in the south wall to the adjacent corridor. The Closet A well-crafted and probably primary doorway off the north end of the west wall of the Stair Hall has a six-panelled plain painted door leading into a small WC. This is separated from the rest of what was evidently a single space by a modern partition wall. The rest of the original space is now access off the main room in the West Whig and contains a store on the ground floor with timber steps leading up to a library or shelved store on a mezzanine above -- all presumably part of the late-1930's alterations. The original room is presumably the WC and closet mentioned in the 1924 Sales Particulars and it may have always had that function since the house was initially built - though then a specific Water Closet in a house would have been the sign of a fairly high status dwelling. -32- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
Denford Park. Kintburv, Berkshire PI. 18: The Stair Hall seen through the inserted opening in its south wall. f. L__ -33- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
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