Denford Park, Kintbury - Hungerford Virtual Museum

DenfordPark. Kintburv. Berkshire
3.3.1.01 The North Front
The north front is of three bays but not quite symmetrical; like the north front of the
West Wing it is set back slightly from the entrance front of the earlier Main House.
The main running detailing - plinth, band course and entablature - of the earlier
building are continued along this elevation and the detailing and scale of the window
openings is also virtually identical.
Although it is a three bay composition and symmetrical at first-floor level — where
there are three sash windows copying those of the earlier work - the elevation is not
quite symmetrical.
At ground-floor level there is a central tall window set in a door-high architrave or
aedicule topped by a segmental pediment; beneath the sill of the sash window is a
stone panel.
To the west, or right, of this is a proper doorway with simpler architrave containing a
glazed double door under a rectangular fanlight; this leads into a lobby. At the left
hand end of the elevation is a window opening set into an architrave similar in outline
to the central window but lacking the pediment. However, instead of containing a
standard sash window it contains two narrow sashes, separated by a plain timber
mullion.
3.3.1.02 The South Front
Because the East Wing is substantial wider than the West Wing it south front is set
back slightly less from the south front of the Main House. This elevation is a moe
symmetrical composition than its north elevation and is also of three bays, its
detailing mainly copying that of the Main House.
The main exception is that, whilst the ground-floor window architraves are full height,
the sills of their sashes are set higher and as a result the panels of masonry beneath
them are taller than those in the corresponding windows of the Main House and the
West Wing.
3.3.2 The Roof
The roof is slated and hidden behind the parapets. It consists of a pair of parallel
shallow-pitched piles, hipped at their eastern ends and running into the adjacent pile
of the roof of the Main House on the other. A tall ashlared chimney rises from the
valley, a little to the west of centre. The 1939 plans indicate that the roof was
supported on RSJs.
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Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlaw House, Bromlaw, Shropshire, SYS OEA