On Monday afternoon, grabbing a sunny few hours, we decided to visit Barrington Court, which is a National Trust house not far from us here.
On approaching the house there was a meadow full of sorrel and other wild flowers.
Neil was pleased to see that in a wild spot of the grounds there were several bee hives.
The house is empty of furniture at the moment but in June and July the BBC will be filming here, so they will be kitting it out with their own props. They will be filming “Wolf Hall” which is the story of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII’s time. Damien Lewis ( who was in Homeland) will be playing Henry VIII. Other actors appearing will be Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Game of Thrones). We were told that Barrington Court will be doubling up for Hampton Court, where unfortunately they cannot film. They will be using some of the grand rooms with their large fireplaces.
There were fabulous tiles in the bathrooms, although I don’t expect they will be filming there.
I hope they use the gardens too as they were lovely. This picture was taken in the “White garden”.
I love this little statue in the kitchen garden.
The flower borders were lovely too.
I really like the roses by the old stables.
And the gorgeous Wisteria, one of my favourite flowers:-
If you want to visit Barrington Court yourself, use our B&B as a base. Quite a few vacancies now for June.
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