of the Mutual Property Life and General Insurance Company Limited, which changed its name to the Crusader Insurance Company Limited in 1946. Further office extensions were built to the north and east of the original house during the time the site was owned by Crusader.

Crusader moved its head office to Greenock in Scotland in 1989, and shortly afterwards the company was bought by Britannia Life. The Woodhatch Lodge site was next occupied by Canon (UK) Limited. In 1996 Canon secured planning permission