After being requisitioned during the Second World War, the house had various military uses and was the home of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre until March 2020, when it was sold by the Ministry of Defence.

Facing high levels of taxation at the end of the First World War, he sold the estate in lots between November 1918 and July 1919.

[3][4] Not long afterwards, the house and grounds were bought by Colonel Sofer Whitburn DSO, who in 1923 engaged Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll to redesign the gardens.

[8] A Better Defence Estate, published in November 2016, indicated that the Armed Forces Chaplaincy would close by 2020, which it subsequently did, to be relocated to Shrivenham, near Swindon.

[10] A converted stable block at the house was for some years the home of the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum, which also moved to Shrivenham.