Cole Park

Cole Park is a Grade II* listed moated country house off Grange Lane, in the parish of St Paul Malmesbury Without, about 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) south of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. It stands on land once known as Cowfold that was owned in the Middle Ages by the Abbey of Malmesbury, and in the Tudor period was a royal stud.

Entrance to Cole Park

History
Cole Park on a 1920s Ordnance Survey map

The house is in the grounds of a former medieval monastic deer-park, originally known as Cowfold, once owned by the Abbey of Malmesbury.[1][2] William of Colerne was the abbot from 1260 to 1296, from whom the name Cole Park may derive. The abbey had a lodge on the site which was still standing in 1540.[3]

The estate passed to the Crown at the Dissolution, and in the Tudor period Cole Park was a royal stud-farm,[4] which in 1625 was leased by Sir George Marshall.[3] In the 1650s the Crown sold it to Hugh Audley, and the property passed down to the Harvey and Lovell families until it was sold (together with Rodbourne Rail farm) in 1945.[3]

The earliest extant parts of the house date to the mid-sixteenth century but it has been extensively renovated and changed during its history. The house was altered by John Harvey around 1700 and again in 1775–6 for John and Sarah Lovell. It was repaired in 1796 for Peter Lovell and in the modern era had a complete refurbishment in 1981 by William Bertram.[1] It was purchased by the financier Sir Mark Weinberg and his wife, the designer Anouska Hempel, in the mid-1980s.[5]

The house was recorded as Grade II* listed in 1951.[1]

References
  1. Historic England. "Cole Park (1022270)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 3 pp210-231 – House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Malmesbury". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  3. Baggs, A.P.; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H (1991). Crowley, D.A. (ed.). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 14 pp127-168 – Parishes: Malmesbury". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  4. Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1957). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 5 pp80-110 – County government 1530–1660". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  5. Designer Anouska Hempel's Historic Manor in the English Countryside. Anthony Gardner, Architectural Digest, 6 February 2017. Magazine publication April 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

Further reading
  • Masson, Madeleine. (1985) A history of Cole Park at St Paul's Without Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Merrick, 1985.

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