 The house was used by an independent prep school, Greenways School, from 1940 until the school closed in 1969.The Codford area has had a long history with ANZAC soldiers and during World War I large training and transfer camps were established for the tens of thousands of troops waiting to move to France.Codford also became a depot in 1916 for the men who had been evacuated from the front line and were not fit to return to the front.