 Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun around 1538 and completed in the late 1550s , with a vernacular stable court ( 1675 ) , situated in Barrington , near Ilminster , Somerset , England . The house was owned by several families by 1745 after which it fell into disrepair and was used as a tenant farm . After repair by architect Sir John Soane in 1807 , the house became a country house hotel .
Barrington Court is a Grade I listed building .
The house was built for Sir John Horsey , a courtier of King Henry VIII , who was granted the manor of Barrington in 1