Alistair Hardaker | Image: Rendering of Trent Park House, Photo Berkeley Homes
Trent Park House of Secrets in Enfield will tell the story of Sir Philip Sassoon’s interwar circle and a covert wartime intelligence operation.
Trent Park House of Secrets, a museum in Enfield, north London, will open on 21 July 2026.
The museum, set within Trent Country Park, tells two stories. The first is the interwar social world of Sir Philip Sassoon, whose guests included Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, Kings George V and VI, and Edward VIII.
The second is a wartime intelligence operation. During the Second World War, senior German officers, including 59 of the highest-ranking generals, were held captive at Trent Park, where their conversations were recorded through a hidden network of bugging devices.
In concealed basement rooms, teams of Secret Listeners, almost all of them German-speaking Jewish refugees, recorded and translated the conversations to produce military intelligence. The museum says this chapter of history remained largely untold for over 70 years.
Visitors will be able to move between the social world created by Sassoon and the wartime operation below stairs.
Dr Giuseppe Albano, director of Trent Park House of Secrets, said: “We are opening the house with many secrets to share, and there will be more to discover in the years ahead as the story of Trent Park continues to unfold.”
The opening was announced by Jason Charalambous, founding trustee and co-chair of Trent Park Museum Trust. The museum will open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Advance booking opens in early July.
