Hotel · Burford
The Bay Tree
A Grade II listed hotel on Sheep Street, Burford, with 21 rooms and a walled garden, part of Cotswold Inns and Hotels, dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
A listed house with a walled garden on Sheep Street, a minute from the High Street, and the only one of Burford's two Cotswold Inns hotels with its own car park.
- Good: Walled garden, where dogs can eat with their owners
- Good: Free car park, shared with the Lamb Inn
- Worth knowing: Dogs £20 a night in set rooms; not in the main restaurant
- Worth knowing: No lift and no EV charging
About
The Bay Tree is a hotel in a Grade II listed house on Sheep Street in Burford, a few steps off the High Street. Historic England dates the house to the late 17th century, restored and altered about 1936, and records that it was once called Tanfield House. It has 21 rooms, in classic, superior and garden-room grades, and a walled garden behind the house. It belongs to the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group, as does the Lamb Inn a few doors along.
The restaurant serves seasonal British food from breakfast to dinner, with lunch, Sunday lunch, afternoon tea, bar snacks and a children's menu. The garden is also used for weddings.
Dogs stay in a set of dog rooms for £20 a night, and £10 for each extra dog, with a bed, a bowl and a sausage at breakfast. They can eat with their owners in the bar and the garden, but not in the main restaurant. The hotel has a small free car park, has no lift and no EV charging. St John the Baptist and the River Windrush are at the bottom of the town.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Rooms
- 21
- Check-in
- From 2pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Restaurant · Bar · Parking · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside
- History
- Late 17th-century house, Grade II listed
- Parking
- A small free car park, which guests of the Lamb Inn next door also use. No EV charging.
Photos
A garden room 
The lounge 
The dining room 
A four-poster room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Lamb Inn 0.1 km away
- Huffkins, Burford 0.1 km away
- The Cotswold Arms 0.1 km away
- Ostlers 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Burford Bridge
Sight · Bridge · Burford
Burford Bridge carries the road over the River Windrush at the foot of Burford's High Street: four low arches with pointed cutwaters, medieval in origin and heavily remodelled in 1791. Grade II*, on the way in and out of the town.
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Burford Priory
Sight · Historic building · Burford
Burford Priory is a Jacobean mansion on the site of a medieval hospital in Burford, remodelled by Speaker Lenthall in the seventeenth century, with his chapel of 1661 to 1662 beside it. Grade I; a private house, seen only from Priory Lane.
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St John the Baptist, Burford
Sight · Church · Burford
St John the Baptist is Burford's great wool church by the Windrush: Norman at its core, with a fan-vaulted porch, the Tanfield and Harman monuments, and the font where a Leveller carved his name before three were shot in 1649. Grade I; open daily, free.
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River Windrush
Sight · River · The Oxfordshire Cotswolds
The River Windrush rises on the high wolds of Gloucestershire and runs south-east through Naunton, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Minster Lovell and Witney to join the Thames at Newbridge. Public footpaths follow much of it, and eight of our walks meet it.