[1] For the first part of its life it was based at Wispers, a large country house near Midhurst, West Sussex, UK.
In 1946 Helen Brown, the wife of a vicar and brother of Sir Robert Benson Ewbank, bought Herries School in Cookham Dean in Berkshire.
In 1947 her husband needed to be confined to a TB clinic near the south coast, and accordingly the school was to move to Wispers, a large country house designed by the architect Richard Norman Shaw, near Midhurst in West Sussex.
Writer Angela Lambert[3][4] and actresses Susannah York[5] and Pamela Salem[6] attended the school in the early 1950s while it was based at Wispers.
[1][9] A fictionalised version of the school and its pupils and staff is presented in Angela Lambert's 1990 novel, No Talking After Lights.