The New Inn is now known as the Inn for All Seasons and is located on the main A40 Burford Road half a mile to the south of Little Barrington.
The following information has been extracted from the Inn For All Seasons website:
The original part of the Inn, now the bar area, was built in the 1500’s and started out as quarry cottages, housing quarry men and their families employed by the Barrington Estate in the quarrying of Cotswold stone. Some of the Cotswold stone quarried from the seam of stone that ran through the forest to the rear of the Inn’s larger beer garden even made it’s way into London’s iconic St. Paul’s Cathedral and several of the Oxford University colleges’ ‘dreaming spires’.
With the arrival of the highway in the 1700’s, the building became a coaching inn and was later further extended to accommodate stage coach passengers and other travellers en-route between London, Oxford, the west country and Wales. All of the main arterial roads extending from London to other parts of the country had Stage Coach Inns mostly every seven miles along their routes (seven miles was then a long rickety journey by stage coach!). A Stage Coach had to be able to provide drink, food and accommodation for weary travellers and be able to provide a fresh change of horses for Stage Coaches. The Inn’s current Coach House dates from the 1870s is to the east side of the main building; it has now been converted into comfortable guest accommodation.
During the stage coach era, the Inn was known as ‘The New Inn’ and provided an essential stopping point for horses, horse-drawn carriages, Stage Coaches and, more recently, the motor car.
In the early 1960’s the Barrington Estate sold The New Inn to Jeremy Taylor (a Horse Master who had worked on many iconic 1960’s films including Lawrence of Arabia, The Winter’s Tale and A Man for All Seasons) who, in homage to his film career, renamed The New Inn to the ‘Inn for All Seasons’ in the late 1960’s.
The Inn remains largely unchanged from it’s early origins whilst having, more recently, been sympathetically updated to provide all necessary the conveniences sought by the modern day traveller.
The Inn is currently owned and run by the Hillier family who graciously offer all guests a very warm Cotswolds welcome.
Tewkesbury Register, Friday 9th September 1960 – For sale by auction on Friday September 23rd, 1960 (unless disposed of previously). The New Inn, Great Barrington on the A40 Trunk Road. Free House and Filling Station. Vacant Possession Michaelmas 1960. Ideal situation. Auctioneers Hobbs and Chambers, Cirencester.
Map reference: ST 204121
Owner in 1891: Edward Rhys-Wingfield (free from brewery tie)
Rateable value in 1891: £12.0s.0d.
Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse
Owner in 1903: Mervyn Wingfield (free from brewery tie)
Rateable value in 1903: £12.0s.0d.
Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse (six day licence, presumably closed on Sundays)
Closing time in 1903: 10pm
Landlords at the New Inn / Inn for All Seasons include:
1850,1853 James Green
1856, 1891 Thomas Jackson
1892 James Jackson
1892 (Sept) ‘License of the New Inn, Great Barrington, transferred from Mr Jackson to Mr John Pinching (snr).’
1901 John Pinching (died March 17th 1901)
1902 Mrs Elizabeth Pinching
1902 (Oct) ,1906 Edwin Bond
1908 Margaret Bond
1919,1927 Charles Whitlock
1939 Thomas William Lazenby