 In 1947 (following its use as a military hospital in the Second World War) the Sherfield Manor site was purchased and operated by North Foreland Lodge, a girls' boarding school previously based in North Foreland, Kent.The buildings on the site were then extended over the years to a size in excess of with the site also including nine residential units.The North Foreland Lodge girls' boarding school used this site as a school from 1947 until 2003.