some of the hall space was converted into passageways. The house's main entrance, on the north side, was replaced with one on the west. The house was sold again in 1944, to the Church of England Incorporated Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays. In 1965 it became a school. Treatment centre In 1983 the house became a treatment centre for drug dependence and alcohol dependence, founded under the name Clouds House by Peter and Margaret Ann McCann. The McCanns ran the centre until 1988 when they left to found the Castle Craig Hospital rehabilitation clinic in Scotland. In May 2007 the Clouds House centre merged with Action on Addiction and the Chemical Dependency Centre, forming a new charity under the Action on Addiction name. The charity's head office is next to Clouds in East Knoyle. It offers an abstinence-based twelve-step program, provided over a six-week residential stay. Births Lady Cynthia Asquith Notes References External links Country houses in Wiltshire Arts and Crafts architecture in England Grade II* listed buildings in Wiltshire Grade II* listed houses Houses completed in 1891 Philip Webb buildings Houses decorated by Morris & Co. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers