Denford Park, Kintbury - Hungerford Virtual Museum

Denford Park Kintbury. Berkshire
3.3.3 The Interior
The internal divisions are fairly similar on both floor levels, with rooms accessed off a
central axial corridor linking the Main House with the Service Wing. The only
substantive difference is a cranked entrance from the Main House into the first-floor
corridor, caused by the disposition of the doorway access from the earlier building.
3.3.3.01 The Ground Floor
The Ground-floor Corridor
The Ground-floor Corridor is reached from the Main House through what may have
been the original access into the earlier link block in this position. The present
corridor is separated into two distinct parts by a doorway in a cross wall.
The door is a six-panelled one, probably veneered, with a central beading; it may have
been rest in this position. This may have been the new 'green baize door' between the
polite parts of the house and the service quarters following the late-1930's changes; it
could even be the original door, removed from its original position in the east wall of
the house (where the doorway into this corridor is now open) and reset where it is
now.
To the west of that door the floor of the corridor is of good quality polished stone, has
a tall skirting board, simply coved cornice, and pedestalled doorcases. Beyond the
doorway, the eastern section has what appears to be a composite floor and no cornice
- but it does retain a skirting board and pedestalled doorcases.
Because the corridor is central it is rather dark. The western end does have some light
filtering in from the open doorway into the Main House. The doorway in its north
wall at the west end to the Lobby has a large semi-circular fanlight to provide more
borrowed light. The eastern section has a small amount of borrowed light from a
glazed internal oval window set high in the north wall just to the east of the doorway.
The Lobby
The Lobby at the west end of the wing provides a link between the doorway in the
north wall and the corridor - and, hi turn, to the main part of the house. It is a fairly
narrow space with double glazed doors at the north end and a painted six-panel door
under the fanlight at the other.
The room is fairly plain, with a simple skirting board, coved ceiling and plain walls
and ceiling; the cupboards along the east wall are fairly modern but the recessed
radiator position in the west wall could be primary. It is labelled the Entrance Hall on
a plan of June 1939.
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Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlaw, Shropshire, SYS OEA