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Barn Hotel
Architecture
Designed
by Edward Prior, architect for Major Weatherall, it is thought to
be one of the most important houses of its time in Europe. It was
to cost over £7,000, no mean sum for a modest dwelling of
that time.
Burnt
down in 1905, rebuilt soon afterwards, it largely retains its character.
Listed
grade II, it is an example of the Arts and Crafts Movement's influence
on architectural design. It had developed from the Art Workers Guild
founded in 1884. The guild was the craftsman's protest against Victorian
influences, especially the growth of industrialisation, It grew
to embrace not only architecture, but furniture, wall papers (William
Morris papers are reproduced today), glass painting, pottery, woodcarving,
metalwork and typography.


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