Welcome to Burford Lodge
Traditional comfort and service, fine cuisine, and a charming attention to detail. Your hotel experience at the edge of one of premier Cotswold destinations
style and grace
Welcome to Burford Lodge, an independently owned business, where individuality matters. Here, we deliver traditional values of service with unpretentious style; sophisticated dining has a modern twist; and contemporary business needs are catered for in an historic setting.
We provide country house hospitality and a professional and bespoke approach to your individual needs – whether you are staying with us for business or for pleasure.
Completely remodelled, refurbished and modernised to meet current needs, Burford Lodge is the town’s first ‘historic’ hotel for the third millennium. You will find rooms full of genuine antique furniture, fixtures and fittings, and accessories; where sumptuous panelling, and Regency-style fabrics and wall coverings recall the building’s origins.
At Burford Lodge, relaxed elegance and every modern comfort meet at the gateway to the Cotswolds.
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Food to live for
The cuisine at Burford Lodge is traditional English, occasionally with European influences, given an imaginative twist by our specialist chefs complemented by a list of especially selected fine wines.
All the vegetables prepared by our chefs are organic where available and sourced from independent local suppliers. Our aim is to give you the comfort of an affordable dining experience.
The fifty-cover, non-smoking restaurant, with its original 19th-century oil and pendant lamps, is for residents and non-residents alike.
You may choose to have your meat cooked on volcanic stones at your own table; we have a wide range of mouth-watering vegetarian and vegan cuisine; and we will willingly cater for diners with allergies or special dietary needs.
You can dip fruit, mallows and nuts in our Belgian chocolate fountain, enjoy a fine whisky, quaff real ale, and drink champagne by the glass.
an elegant intimacy
All of our bedrooms have been fully restored, individually designed, and sumptuously redecorated to reflect the hotel’s origins as a country villa. Burford Lodge is effectively a quintessential small Victorian hotel, where the 19th century is all about you in furniture, fixtures and fittings.Yet, distanced from the outside, behind heavily draped, tasselled curtains and complementing accessories, you will sleep between antique brass bedposts.
You can bathe in contemporary Victorian-style "sit-in baths", enjoy instant hot water power showers, or relax in an invigorating whirlpool bath. Whichever you choose, you will delight in the stunning water pressure that, at Burford Lodge, is twice that to be found at most other hotels.
Above you, fibre-optic lights give just the right amount of flattering illumination.
a pedigree of service
Burford Lodge was built c1814, most probably as an elegant country residence for a local businessman, and was the first property to be built alongside what was then a new road. By 1844, it was The Bird’s Nest public house, and, in 1864 became The Oxford. Soon afterwards, called Oxford House, it was the private residence of Thomas Henry Reynolds who wrote hymns, edited a hymn book, and was financially involved in the Burford brewery and a number of local utilities. He renamed the house High View, and this name remained when, c1930, it was once more converted to trade as The High View Private Hotel.
Later, the liberally-minded Sharpe family, conservationists, musicians and naturists, operated The High View as a bed and breakfast establishment with a caravan site attached. Their business continued until the 1960s, after which it was known for a while as The Winter’s Tale. Since then, the building has been one of the properties in the estate of a national brewery. The business was bought in 2004 by Graham and Paula Cox.