WING TO BARRINGTON COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056932
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: WING TO BARRINGTON COURT
Statutory Address:: WING TO BARRINGTON COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056932
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: WING TO BARRINGTON COURT
Statutory Address 1:: WING TO BARRINGTON COURT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WING TO BARRINGTON COURT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Barrington
National Grid Reference:: ST 39772 18259

Details

ST3918 BARRINGTON CP BARRINGTON COURT ESTATE

9/168 Wing to Barrington Court (previously listed as outbuildings immediately west of Barrington Court) 17.4.59

GV II*

Stables, now wing to Barrington Court, (qv). Dated:- "1674" in blue headers, embellished 1760, altered to form part of Barrington Court 1921-25 by Forbes and Tate for A.A. Lyle. Brick with Hamstone dressings, hipped plain tile roofs, tall grouped brick stacks to ridges. U-plan with stable-yard, now a quadrangle with a central 'fountain court'. The south-east front virtually as in 1760, 2 storeys, 3:1:3 bays, semi-circular head windows with imposts and keystones, except square head window to centre of first floor with a pediment. Door opening to each side with a triangular pediment, and twin central semi-circular head carriage openings, now glazed. West front all by Forbes and Tate, 1:3:1:3:1 bays, small square windows to first floor with architraves and triple keys, semi-circular head openings on ground floor with keys and imposts, predominantly French windows. Central 'fountain court' with pool and carved figures; mullioned and transomed windows. (Country Life, September 17, l908; November 7, 1925; March 17; 1928; September 9, 1949; July 28, 1960; VCH, vol IV, 1978; VCH, vol IV, 1978).

Listing NGR: ST3977218259

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 264294
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)
'Country Life' in 17 September, (1908)
'Country Life' in 28 July, (1960)
'Country Life' in 9 September, (1949)
'Country Life' in 7 November, (1925)
'Country Life' in 17 March, (1928)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.