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Warren Lodge, which is now the Presbytery, is relatively new but has connections with the church from the 17th century. The 1624 will of the wealthy cloth maker John Hendrick, left money for the establishment of Kendrick's Morning Prayer Charity. Newbury Corporation used some of this money to buy 23 acres of Warren Lodge Farm in 1639. The farm was probably owned by Sandleford Priory with two adjacent fields to the east. This is shown on the Newbury Tythe map of 1840. The Wash Common area featured extensively during the Civil War and practically every building in the area is mentioned in the records except Warren Farm. Neither is it shown on the Enclosure maps of 1838, when the Common was mainly heath land. The present Lodge was probably built around 1845 as a superior residence to the old farm house. A record of 1894 shows part of Warren Farm was included in the Real Estate of St. Bartholomew's Grammer School, Newbury, and attracted a yearly rental of £23. The old barn, however, from which the Church of St. Francis de Sales is built may well be a century older than Warren Lodge. The land was farmed and the Lodge occupied by Captain and Mrs Tredinnick from 1923 until 1968.
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