Geograph - photograph every grid square

Strode House and Barrington Court viewed from the south-west. Strode house in the foreground was built in 1674 by William Strode II as a stable block. Barrington Court which is to the rear was built in the 1550s in local Ham Hill oolitic limestone by the Earl of Bridgewater who died before it was completed. By the beginning of the twentieth century the house was in a parlous and dilapidated state with the roof leaking and many of the windows bricked up. The property was acquired by the National Trust in 1907, as their first country estate. Much of the restoration was funded by three generations of the Lyle family (of Tate and Lyle) who were tenants from 1920 to 1991.