Barrington Court
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The north front of Barrington Court
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| Location | Barrington, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 50°57′40″N 2°51′31″W / 50.96111°N 2.85861°WCoordinates: 50°57′40″N 2°51′31″W / 50.96111°N 2.85861°W |
| Built | 1550s |
| Architectural style(s) | Tudor |
| Owner | National Trust |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Official name: Barrington Court | |
| Designated | 17 April 1959 |
| Reference no. | 1345920 |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Official name: Wing to Barrington Court | |
| Designated | 17 April 1959 |
| Reference no. | 1056932 |
| Official name: Barrington Court | |
| Type | Grade II* |
| Designated | 20 September 1988 |
| Reference no. | 1000505 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Gateway to west of forecourt area | |
| Designated | 20 September 1988 |
| Reference no. | 1056934 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Motor House | |
| Designated | 20 September 1988 |
| Reference no. | 1264739 |
 Location of Barrington Court in Somerset
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Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun around 1538 and completed in the late 1550s, with a vernacular stable court (1675), situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England.
The house was owned by several families by 1745 after which it fell into disrepair and was used as a tenant farm. After repair by architect Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960), it was the first house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920). In the 1920s the house was renovated, the stable block turned into a residence and several outbuildings, gardens and gateways constructed.
The house was originally surrounded by a medieval deer park and in the 17th century a formal garden was constructed. This had largely disappeared until a new garden was laid out by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll (1843—1932) in an Arts and Crafts-style. It now contains walled kitchen gardens, fruit orchards and ornamental gardens.
The estate had been occupied since the 11th century and by the 14th century included a substantial house to the north east of the present building, where traces of a moat can still be seen. In 1446 the owner, Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney, died at Barrington and left it to his son, another Giles Daubeney, who was a courtier, diplomat and military commander under Edward IV and Henry VII.
The manor was inherited in 1514 by Henry Daubeney, created Earl of Bridgewater for his services to Henry VIII. He spent much of his time in France and little time in Somerset. He may have begun the new house, but he went bankrupt and was involved in the disgrace of Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife. It is unlikely that much, if any, of the current building was his work. The house was forfeit to the crown and then had various owners including Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who in 1552 sold it to William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate. Clifton or his son John Clifton are thought to be responsible for most of the building at Barrington, possibly modeled on earlier work at Kirby Hall or East Anglian manors close to their roots at Kentwell Hall, Hengrave Hall or Channons Hall at Tibenham.
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