Barrington Court

The estate is now a National Trust property, the manor  first built in 1514 by Henry Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater but he went bankrupt because of his involvement with the disgraced Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's 5th wife.


After several decades of different owners, a London merchant, William Clifton, bought it in 1552 and it is thought that he or his son was responsible for the building we see today.  The building finally became a tenant farmhouse and became very delapidated being used for the storing of cider and farm equipment in the early 19th C until in the 20th C a Colonel Abram Arthur Lyle of Tate & Lyle (sugar company) bought the property and completey refurbished it including the massive 17th C stable block adjacent which was incorporated into the dwelling known as The Strode (see extra photograph).  

An interesting and relaxing place to visit with a large walled kitchen garden and other gardens and an orchard.  We thoroughly enjoyed our time there!