Denford Park, Kintbury - Hungerford Virtual Museum

Denford Park Kintburv, Berkshire
3.6.3 The Interior
The ground floor is presently divided into two spaces with an access corridor. The
larger, eastern, space was latterly the Staff Room and is lit by a pair of windows in the
south wall. It is probably the result of amalgamating one or more original spaces.
The smaller room in the south-western corner was latterly an Office, lit by a window
in the south wall and accessed by a doorway in the west wall to the outside. None of
these spaces retain much in the way of original fixtures or fittings.
The layout at first-floor level seems to be more intact and consists of two rooms and a
bathroom with a corridor leading into them. However, the larger, eastern, room and
the bathroom seem to have been carved out of two equally sized rooms, probably in
the later-20 th century. The south-western room seems to be original.
3.7 Building F: The Brick Range
The Brick Range is a two storey block aligned north-south set parallel to the east wall
of the South-East Range (Building E) but originally separate to it. The gap between
the two ranges was infilled around 1950 by the Chapel Block (Building G).
3.7.1 The Exterior
The range is built of painted hand-made brick The lower part of the eastern elevation
is obscured by a later flat-roofed extension. At first-floor level there are four
windows - three with segmental heads and one with a flat head. The segmental
headed windows are assumed to be the original ones; the outer ones of these have
Yorkshire sashes and the middle one is narrower and has no such sash.
The north gable is of two bays with flat-headed windows - two, with Yorkshire
sashes, on the first floor and one, with a balanced sash, on the ground floor. At the
east, or left hand end, of the elevation is the doorway. The south gable has a tripartite
arrangement of flat-headed windows at first-floor level - a wide central sash flanked
by narrower windows. A clumsy bow has been added to the ground-floor and has
three large sashes aping those of the bow of the Main House (Building A).
3.7.2 The Roof
The building has a hipped roof with overhanging and racketted eaves. It seems to be
primary.
3.7.3 The Interior
The interior has been radically altered to accommodate the main kitchen on the
ground floor and a staff flat on the first floor, leaving few original features visible.
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Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlov/ House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA