Hectors House is situated next to the grounds of National Trust property Barrington Court, a Tudor Mansion which featured as a filming location for Wolf Hall and Lucy Wordsley’s Six Wives. Other NT properties are close by including Montecute House and Lytes Cary Manor.
The village is a walkers paradise surrounded by public footpaths with walks to nearby villages. The village gastro pub The Barrington Boar is a short walk as is the nearby Duke of York in neighbouring village of Shepton Beauchamp.
Plentiful shops can be found minutes away in the nearby town of Illminster or closer at the delightful Trading post Farm shop (described by the Times in 2021 as a mini Borough Market)
Mainline London trains run to both Yeovil and Taunton and the following approximate driving distances are;
- Bristol 1 hour 20 mins
- Bath 1 hour 15 mins
- Minehead 1 hour 10 mins
- Lyme Regis 45 mins
- Glastonbury 40 mins Wells 50 minutes
- Taunton 25 minutes
- Yeovil 20 minutes
- Frome 1 hour
- Ilminster 10 mins
- Crewkerne 20 mins