KIRTLING HOUSE (NO. 52)
Photos provided by Janet Glennie-Smith (eldest grand-daughter of Dr and Mrs Hensley).
The plans for Kirtling House, prepared by R. Weir Schultz for F. A. Carter, the architects for Pipers Field, were approved by the Winchester City Planning Department in January 1910. The ground floor had a drawing room, dining room, smoking room, billiard room, kitchen and servants’ hall. Upstairs there were six bedrooms, a dressing room, bathroom and maid’s bathroom. (Building control plan HRO ref. W/C11/2/1341).
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The wife of the first owner, Margaret Ann King, born in Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, clearly the reason for the name of the house.
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Residents:
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Francis Alfred Carter (1910-1930)
Paymaster in the Royal Navy
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Dr. Egerton H V Hensley (1930-1958)
Medical Practitioner
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Kirtling House was sold to the Winchester Group Hospital Committee in 1958. It became a nurses' home in the 1960's.
If you trained or worked at Royal Hampshire County Hospital and lived there you may be interested in this Facebook page.
"Did you train or work as a nurse or midwife at RHCH, Winchester?" www.facebook.com/groups/265717559650
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It was later a residential care home. It was demolished and replaced with the Kirtling Place development, by Banner Homes, in 2011. This consists of 10 two bed units and three four bed units.
