Hotel · Bourton-on-the-Water
Chester House Hotel
A family-owned hotel with 22 rooms on Victoria Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, with L'Anatra Italian Kitchen, a walled garden, a car park and rooms for small dogs.
Dog-friendly
A central hotel with its own car park, which counts for a lot in Bourton, and an Italian kitchen open to all. Small dogs only, in the coach house rooms.
- Good: Car park with 18 spaces
- Good: Italian kitchen open for lunch and dinner daily
- Good: Walled garden for eating outside
- Worth knowing: Small dogs only, in the ground-floor coach house rooms, £10 a night
- Worth knowing: No lift; reception closes at 6pm
About
Chester House is a family-owned hotel in a Victorian building on Victoria Street, in the middle of Bourton-on-the-Water, a short walk from the River Windrush. It has 22 bedrooms over two floors, including ground-floor rooms in the coach house.
Its restaurant, L'Anatra Italian Kitchen, serves stone-baked pizzas, fresh pasta, steak and fish every day at lunch and dinner, and takes outside bookings. Breakfast for guests is in the Garden Room, and the walled garden is used for eating outside when the weather allows.
The hotel has 18 parking spaces, allocated as guests arrive. Small dogs can stay in the ground-floor coach house rooms for £10 a night each, and there is a dog-friendly area in the restaurant.
There is no lift and no night porter: reception is staffed from 8am to 6pm, with the restaurant team covering the evening. One room is partially accessible and is booked by phone.
Opening hours and season
Restaurant
| Monday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
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| Tuesday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 11:30 to 15:30, 17:00 to 20:30 |
L'Anatra Italian Kitchen
Breakfast
| Monday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
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| Tuesday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 09:45 |
Hotel guests, in the Garden Room
Reception
| Monday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
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| Tuesday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 18:00 |
The restaurant team helps from 6pm to 9pm
The bar and lounge open from 9am. No night porter.
The details
- Food
- Italian · Pizza
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 22
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Parking · Dogs in rooms · Accessible rooms
- History
- Victorian building; family-owned hotel
- Parking
- 18 free spaces for guests at the hotel, first come, first served; reception points you to other car parks if it is full.
Photos
A family room 
The breakfast room 
From the kitchen 
The lounge
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Cotswold Perfumery
- The Kingsbridge 0.1 km away
- Old Manse Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Croft 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Narrow Bridge, Bourton-on-the-Water
Sight · Bridge · Bourton-on-the-Water
Narrow Bridge is the oldest dated of the low stone footbridges over the Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, built in 1756 with three rusticated arches and low parapets. Listed Grade II with three of its neighbours, it is crossed free at any time.
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Bourton-on-the-Water war memorial
Sight · Monument · Bourton-on-the-Water
Bourton-on-the-Water's war memorial is a tall stone cross of 1920 on the green beside the Windrush, raised by the village for its 27 men who died in the First World War, with 12 names added after the Second. Listed Grade II; open at all times.
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St Lawrence's Church, Bourton-on-the-Water
Sight · Church · Bourton-on-the-Water
St Lawrence's is Bourton-on-the-Water's parish church on the High Street: a chancel of 1328, a Georgian tower of 1784 under a lead dome and a nave taken back to the Gothic style in 1891. Grade II*, open daily from about 10am to 4pm, step-free and dog friendly.
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Salmonsbury Camp
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Bourton-on-the-Water
Salmonsbury Camp is an Iron Age fortified enclosure of about 23 hectares just east of Bourton-on-the-Water, its double banks still up to 2m high on three sides, with Roman and Saxon finds and a charter of AD 779. A scheduled monument on Greystones Farm reserve.