Arlington Row

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Arlington Row
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Location Arlington, Bibury, Gloucestershire, England
Coordinates 51°45′30″N1°50′05″W / 51.7584°N 1.8348°W / 51.7584; -1.8348 Coordinates: 51°45′30″N1°50′05″W / 51.7584°N 1.8348°W / 51.7584; -1.8348
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameArlington Row
Designated23 January 1952 [1]
Reference no.1155677
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Location of Arlington Row in Gloucestershire

Arlington Row at Arlington in the parish of Bibury, Gloucestershire, England was built in the late 14th century as a wool store and converted into weavers houses in the late 17th century. It is a Grade I listed building, [1] owned by the National Trust. [2]

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Arlington Row on Awkward Hill is a nationally notable architectural conservation area depicted on the inside cover of all United Kingdom passports. [3] It is a popular visitor attraction, [4] probably one of the most photographed Cotswold scenes. [5]

History

The cottages were built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. [6] This was converted into a row of cottages for weavers in the late 17th century, with some late 17th- or early 18th-century additions. [1]

The cloth produced there was hung out on racks to dry on The Rack Isle opposite, before being sent on to Arlington Mill for degreasing. [7]

It was preserved by the Royal Society of Arts in 1929 and restored by the National Trust in the 1970s. [1]

It has been used as a film and television location, most notably for the films Stardust [8] and Bridget Jones's Diary . [9] [10] [11]

In 2017 the BBC reported that an "ugly" car parked by an elderly motorist had been vandalised, possibly by visitors who had repeatedly complained that it spoilt photographs. [12]

Architecture

The limestone two-storey buildings have gables below cruck roofs covered with slate. [1] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Arlington Row". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "Bibury". National Trust. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Arlington Row, Bibury". Loving the Cotswolds. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Gloucestershire – History – Day Out: The South East Cotswolds". BBC. January 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "Arlington Row, Bibury". Bilbury. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Arlington Row (1155677)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Bibury Village, Gloucestershire". www.biburyvillage.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Filming Location Matching "Arlington Row, Bibury, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK"". IMDB. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "Passport picture not behind influx of tourists according to Bibury residents". Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Tales from Bibury Shop: Japanese and English". 13 May 2010.
  11. ↑ "Beauty spots to appear in our new passports". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Notorious yellow car vandalised in Bibury". BBC Gloucester. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  13. ↑ Moore, Nicholas J. (1994). "Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire: Early Conversion of an Industrial Building?". Vernacular Architecture. 25 (1): 20–24. doi:10.1179/vea.1994.25.1.20.
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