Ingelbourne Manor - Malmesbury
October 2014
The mansion at Burton Hill, Malmesbury, the residence of Colonel Napier Miles, now called Ingelbourne Manor, was, until lately, called Burton Hill House. The house forms part of the Burton Hill estate, sold off in parts in the 1830s. John Cockerell (1785-1869), manager of the Sun Life Assurance Co. and brother of the renowned architect C.R. Cockerell RA, had acquired the house and 35 acres by 1839, and asked his brother to design a new house in 1842. Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the leading architects of his day, serving as Surveyor to St Paul's Cathedral, architect to the Bank of England, and Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy; he was the first recipient of the RIBA gold medal in 1848. A major fire in 1846 destroyed much of it, but rebuilding is thought to have been started soon after, presumably following Cockerell's original designs. By 1849 it had passed to the Miles family: the first owner, C.W. Miles, was Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1856. The estate was sold in 1919 and in 1945 the house was taken over by the Shaftesbury Society and used as a school.
Burton Hill House School closed in 2007 and the building was subsequently sold for £2 million. The buyers, who want to remain anonymous, intend to turn the 1840s building into 9 luxury apartments. The Grade II listed former boarding school for students with severe physical and learning disabilities was shut in August 2007 by The Shaftesbury Society, the charity which ran it because of dwindling student numbers. It went on the market in June 2008 with a £3 million price tag. Andrew Macpherson from agents CKD Kennedy Macpherson acted for the buyers. He said "Burton Hill House is such a fantastic building and, having been empty for a couple of years, deserves to have new life breathed into it".
The mansion at Burton Hill, Malmesbury, the residence of Colonel Napier Miles, now called Ingelbourne Manor, was, until lately, called Burton Hill House. The house forms part of the Burton Hill estate, sold off in parts in the 1830s. John Cockerell (1785-1869), manager of the Sun Life Assurance Co. and brother of the renowned architect C.R. Cockerell RA, had acquired the house and 35 acres by 1839, and asked his brother to design a new house in 1842. Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the leading architects of his day, serving as Surveyor to St Paul's Cathedral, architect to the Bank of England, and Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy; he was the first recipient of the RIBA gold medal in 1848. A major fire in 1846 destroyed much of it, but rebuilding is thought to have been started soon after, presumably following Cockerell's original designs. By 1849 it had passed to the Miles family: the first owner, C.W. Miles, was Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1856. The estate was sold in 1919 and in 1945 the house was taken over by the Shaftesbury Society and used as a school.
Burton Hill House School closed in 2007 and the building was subsequently sold for £2 million. The buyers, who want to remain anonymous, intend to turn the 1840s building into 9 luxury apartments. The Grade II listed former boarding school for students with severe physical and learning disabilities was shut in August 2007 by The Shaftesbury Society, the charity which ran it because of dwindling student numbers. It went on the market in June 2008 with a £3 million price tag. Andrew Macpherson from agents CKD Kennedy Macpherson acted for the buyers. He said "Burton Hill House is such a fantastic building and, having been empty for a couple of years, deserves to have new life breathed into it".
