Hotel · Burford
Bull, Burford
A coaching inn on Burford's High Street, opened in 1536 by its own account, now a hotel with 18 rooms, three restaurants and a treatment suite.
Wedding venues
Several places to eat under one roof on the High Street, from walk-in pizza to a ten-seat tasting menu. Five ground-floor rooms take a dog, and there is no car park.
- Good: Horn, Wild, Sl'ice pizza and a cocktail bar in one building
- Good: Free street parking on the High Street, day and night
- Worth knowing: Dogs in five ground-floor rooms only, for £55
- Worth knowing: No car park of its own
- Worth knowing: 12.5% discretionary service charge on bills
About
Bull is a coaching inn at 105 High Street, Burford, which it says opened in 1536, and is now a hotel with 18 bedrooms and suites, breakfast included. It holds one Michelin Key. Historic England lists the building Grade II*: a medieval core, largely rebuilt about 1620, refronted about 1715 and restored after a fire in 1982. LateRooms lists check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am.
Its restaurants are open to non-residents. Horn, the main restaurant, serves modern European cooking from breakfast to dinner, with mains from about £30 and roasts on Sundays. Wild is an eleven-course tasting menu cooked over an open fire for ten guests, Wednesday to Saturday evenings, at £200 a head. Sl'ice sells pizza and gelato to walk-ins from Thursday to Sunday, and Vincent's is the cocktail and wine bar, with live music from 8pm. Hiro takes private parties of up to 18, and the terrace up to 60 seated or 100 standing. There is a first-floor treatment suite, Zen.
Dogs are welcome for £55 in five ground-floor rooms (Beam, Bullsaye, Fenestra, Lunar and Stripe), and most rooms are marked as not suitable for children. Lunar is step-free and wheelchair accessible. Bull has no car park, but parking on the High Street and nearby streets is free. The River Windrush and the walk through Burford's lanes and fields start at the foot of the hill.
Opening hours and season
Restaurant
| Monday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 18:00 |
Horn, the main restaurant: breakfast, lunch and dinner; Sunday roasts
Restaurant
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 19:00 to 22:30 |
| Thursday | 19:00 to 22:30 |
| Friday | 19:00 to 22:30 |
| Saturday | 19:00 to 22:30 |
| Sunday | Closed |
Wild: an eleven-course open-fire tasting menu for ten, £200 a head
Food served
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 21:30 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 21:30 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 21:00 |
Sl'ice: pizza and gelato, walk-ins only
The details
- Food
- European · Pizza · Fine dining
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 18
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Private dining · Live music · Spa · Garden or terrace · Dogs in rooms · Events and meetings
- Awards
- Michelin Guide, one Michelin Key
- The Sunday Times Romantic Hotel of the Year
- History
- Inn opened in 1536 by its own account; building rebuilt about 1620, Grade II*
- Parking
- No car park. Free across the High Street with no time limit, and on Sheep Street, Witney Street and Lawrence Lane; Guildenford car park (OX18 4SE) is free for up to 4 or 10 hours.
- Without a car
- Shipton station is 11 minutes by car, Kingham 15 and Charlbury 20. The hotel's Land Rover Defender meets trains at Charlbury, Kingham or Oxford by arrangement, booked through its transfers page.
Photos
A sitting room 
A beamed room 
A bathroom 
The Bull, Burford
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Burford Tolsey Museum 0.1 km away
- The Angel at Burford 0.1 km away
- Huffkins, Burford 0.1 km away
- The Cotswold Arms 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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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.
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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.