The estate was about 1+1⁄4 miles (2 km) northeast of the town of Devizes and included a house, stables, gardens, farmland and woodland.

[2] The land that New Park stood upon was originally owned by the Crown Estate and was later purchased by an unknown party.

The estate passed to Willey's younger brother James Sutton MP,[3] recently married to Eleanor Addington, and he ordered alterations to the house.

In 1954, Wiltshire County Council purchased the house, gardens and paddocks for Civil Defence purposes.

[7] After six years, the council sold the house, which was suffering from dry rot at this point, to Peter White, a property speculator.