Arlington Row at Arlington in the parish of

Bibury Bibury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the River Coln, a Thames tributary that rises in the same (Cotswold) District. The village centre is northeast of Cirencester. Arlington Row is a nationally notable a ...

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

, 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

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, owned by the

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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. It is a popular visitor attraction, probably one of the most photographed

Cotswold The Cotswolds (, ) is a region in central-southwest England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale. The area is defined by the bedrock of Jura ...

scenes.

History

The cottages were built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. This was converted into a row of cottages for weavers in the late 17th century, with some late 17th- or early 18th-century additions. The cloth produced there was hung out on racks to dry on The Rack Isle opposite, before being sent on to Arlington Mill for

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. It was preserved by the Royal Society of Arts in 1929 and restored by the

in the 1970s. It has been used as a film and television location, most notably for the films '' Stardust'' and ''

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''. 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.

Architecture

The

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two-storey buildings have

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s below

cruck A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and ...

roofs covered with slate.

External links

Drone footage of the cottages

References

{{reflist Grade I listed buildings in Gloucestershire Cotswold District Cotswolds