Tempsford Hall

Tempsford Hall is a country house in Tempsford, Bedfordshire.

Entrance to Tempsford Hall

History

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 the house was rebuilt in 1898 and in 1933 Kathleen Wynne, who had been born a member of the Stuart family, inherited the house from a distant relative.[1] During World War II it was used by the Special Operations Executive as an agent reception and pre-flight preparation centre.[2]

After the War it was acquired by Henry Hales who used it as a clinic until 1964 when he 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]

References
  1. "Millennium Garden". Tempsford Museum and Archives. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  2. "People's War". BBC. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  3. Morby, Aaron (25 October 2019). "Kier to sell historic country HQ to pay down debt". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  4. "Kier moves north". The Construction Index. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

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