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Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun 1538 and completed in the late 1550’s Situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England. It was the first large house acquired by the National Trust in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Barrington Court considered an early example of a symmetrical front, was completed in the late 1550’s for William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate. Its central entry porch leads into a screens passage with the Hall on the left and, an innovation, a service passage leading to the kitchen wing that occupies the right wing. Barrington Court was acquired by the Trust and subsequently leased to Col. A. A. Lyle of Tate & Lyle in the 1920s. He and his wife turned the house around and refurbished the court house and renovated Strode House
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