Trent Park House of Secrets 2026/27

The house and grounds were transformed into a state-of-the-art surveillance centre for German senior officer prisoners in the winter of 1939-40 under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Kendrick, with interrogation blocks and offices built up in front of the mansion, which itself was adapted and installed with a complex network of miniaturised bugging devices hidden in every corner – in walls and skirtings, light fittings, plant pots, window ledges, the billiard table, even the garden benches.

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Operator: Trent Park Museum Trust

Address: Daffodil Crescent Enfield Greater London EN4 0PS

Telephone: 020 4524 0419
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Open Days & Times

Tue-Sun 1000-1700. (Closed Jan 2027.) Reopens Feb 2027. Visit website or facebook for more details with advance booking necessary to guarantee entry. (Please check website for this.)

Travel

By Bus: Shuttle Bus
By Rail: Oakwood (LUG) / 1 mile

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Trent Park was originally part of King George III’s estate with the first house constructed in the 1780s, by the 1890s the house had been rebuilt in the Victorian style; before an extensive refurbishment by Sir Philip Sassoon in the 1920s, which transformed it into a luxury weekend retreat for entertaining the most prominent figures of the day including many politicians.

By early 1943 the secret listeners at Trent Park had documented many thousands of conversations, but Kendrick needed to find native German speakers who could interpret numerous different dialects and technical language and every informal word spoken by the prisoners. This had become an incredibly important tool in the intelligence war.