Following the purchase of much of the parish by the War Department in 1898, the house and stables became the home of the Cavalry School from 1904. It was subsequently used by the Machine Gun School, and in 1975 began to serve as the Officers' Mess for the Support Weapons Wing of the School of Infantry. Avon camp closed in the 1990s and the house, stables and grounds were sold by the Ministry of Defence. In 2004 the house was converted into two homes and the stables into seven.