Barrington houses [16]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 19 May 2023

The Priory is a late medieval house, a wing of which may have been a secondary dwelling or a courtroom. The house was greatly altered and refurbished in the late 19th century. Constructed of coursed rubble stone with freestone dressings under tile roofs. Originally, a pair of open halls at right-angles to each other, forming an L-plan. Both later had floors inserted. The house was refronted in the late 19th century in a Gothic style. There is a short section of high rubble wall, a doorway with a pointed archway and a pair of ashlar gate piers. Some early internal features remain. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1345924 The village of Barrington in Somerset, lies some 10¼ miles west of Yeovil and about 11 miles southeast of Taunton, on the southern edge of the Somerset Levels. The village is home to Barrington Court, an estate of some 80 acres with a Tudor manor house. Barrington was originally an agricultural village but most working residents now commute.

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