[1] There is a late nineteenth-century extension, and at the same time the interior was remodelled "in a very rich style, leaving little original work behind".

[citation needed] Baron Hillingdon built his own gasworks as well as a laundry and an orphanage from where he employed many of his staff.

[citation needed] In 1923, Wildernesse was sold to a syndicate, becoming a Country Club and Golf Course which had, as an early brochure states, “probably the most palatial nineteenth hole in England”.

[citation needed] After use as a sector hospital during the Second World War, Wildernesse continued as a Country Club until 1954.

[citation needed] It was used as a children's convalescent home called Oak Bank until it was sold to the RLSB and became known as Dorton House, named after the Society's previous home in a Grade 1 listed Jacobean Mansion in Dorton, Buckinghamshire.