Lady Jones - Enid Bagnold - and her husband Sir Roderick, came to North End House in 1924. They were part of the vanguard of artistic taste of 1920s Britain: she had worked in Sickert's studio, sat to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, the hand of Gertrude Jekyll was evident in the garden, and, perhaps in spite of her sporadic involvement with the Bloomsbury Group, had written several best-selling novels, including National Velvet. Weekends at North End were clearly a richly tapestried affair, with the Woolfs, Bells, Duncan Grant and Rudyard Kipling all friends and neighbours. The house itself was much enlarged, having been successively the homes of Edward Burne-Jones and William Nicholson. Their children remarked that they knew the builders better than their Governesses: each summer alterations to rooms, balconies windows or gardens was carried out. The ensemble was clearly a successful blend of layers of thoughtful decoration, driven by her own decisive and fresh taste.