Barrington Court

How to summarise this lovely Tudor Manor house? The origins of the estate go back to the Norman Conquest, this house from 1538, completed around 1550, it has had many owners including the Daubeneys, the Cliftons, who were mainly responsible for finishing the house and who sold it in 1605 to Sir Thomas Philips of Montacute House. In 1625 it was sold to the Strode family, who kept it until 1745.
After then it had a succession of owners and was poorly maintained, such that it was in a ruinous state when in 1907 it was gifted to the National Trust, who had insufficient funds to effect repairs.
In the 1920's it's fortunes were reversed, when leased by Colonel Abram Arthur Lyle who set about restoration using timber from his own collection, panelling and staircases acquired from various sources and making internal alterations to suit more modern way of life, he also engaged the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll to create formal gardens and borders.
The effect is stunningly beautiful. In the photo a dodecahedral sundial with bronze gnomons appears to be from the C17 but is actually from the 1920's, possibly during the garden remodelling.