Tempsford Hall is a country house in Tempsford, Bedfordshire.
Tempsford Hall is a country house in Tempsford, Bedfordshire.
The original hall was built in 1769 for Sir Gillies Payne; it remained in the Payne family until 1824 when it was sold to Colonel William Stuart. [1] Following a fire in November 1898 the house was rebuilt and completed in 1903. In 1933 Millicent the last of the Stuart family died and the hall and estate passed to a second cousin Kathleen Ann Pole Wynne, who had been born a member of the Stuart family. [1] In 1938 the Hall was leased by Dr Henry Ward Hales who used it as a clinic. He later purchased the freehold in 1946. [1]
During World War II it was used by the Special Operations Executive as an agent reception and pre-flight preparation centre. [2]
In 1964 Hales sold it to the Kier Group construction business. [1] In October 2019, financially troubled Kier announced it was selling its Tempsford Hall headquarters to raise cash from its property assets, [3] and head office functions were transferred to Kier's Manchester office in April 2020. [4]
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