Hotel · Minchinhampton
Burleigh Court
A Grade II listed country house hotel below Minchinhampton Common, above the Golden Valley, with 18 rooms, a two-rosette restaurant and a garden spa with a sauna, hot tub and plunge pool.
Dog-friendly · EV charging · Wedding venues · Walker-friendly
A small country house hotel with good food and a garden spa, on a lane below Minchinhampton Common. It suits couples and dog owners best: there is one family suite, and the house is old, so ask about access before booking.
- Good: Two AA rosettes for the restaurant
- Good: Wellness garden with a Nordic sauna, hot tub and an unheated historic plunge pool
- Good: Dog rooms in the Coach House open straight onto the grounds
- Worth knowing: Mostly for adults: only one family suite
- Worth knowing: Dog rooms are booked by phone or email, not online
- Worth knowing: The wellness garden is free only when you book direct; a daily fee applies otherwise
About
Burleigh Court is an early nineteenth-century stone manor house on Burleigh Lane, on the slope between Minchinhampton and the Golden Valley at Brimscombe. It is listed Grade II and set in more than four acres of gardens looking over the valley.
The hotel counts 18 rooms and suites, its holiday cottage among them, from small Cosy Rooms (listed from £149 a night when we checked in October 2026) to four-poster Splendid Rooms, split between the main house and the Coach House, where the dog rooms are. The hotel calls itself mostly adults only: it has a single family suite. On the edge of the grounds, Burleigh Lodge is a three-bedroom holiday cottage sleeping six, with a sofa bed downstairs, a wood-fired hot tub and room for up to two dogs, from £250 a night for four, with a two-night minimum stay.
The restaurant holds two AA rosettes and uses produce from the hotel's kitchen garden; afternoon tea is served Wednesday to Saturday. The wellness garden has a Nordic sauna, a hot tub, an unheated historic plunge pool and a treatment hut. It is free for guests who book direct with the hotel; those who book through a third party, and day visitors, pay a daily fee. Minchinhampton Common is at the top of the lane, and our Minchinhampton Common and Amberley walk comes back past Burleigh. The hotel closes from 23 to 26 December, opening only for Christmas Day lunch.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Rooms
- 18
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 10.30am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Views · Spa · Swimming pool · Private dining · Dogs in rooms · Family rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi · Open fire
- Awards
- Two AA Rosettes
- History
- Early 19th-century Grade II listed manor house
- Parking
- Free for guests, with an EV charger (two connections) in front of the Coach House.
Photos
A four-poster room 
The private dining room 
The garden 
Burleigh Court from the garden Photo: Maypm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Crown Inn, Minchinhampton 1.1 km away
- Stroud Brewery 1.3 km away
- Wild View 1.5 km away
- The Old Lodge 1.6 km away
Sights nearby
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
Sight · Church · Minchinhampton
Holy Trinity is Minchinhampton's Grade I parish church, known for its fourteenth-century tower whose spire was cut short in 1563 and crowned with a stone coronet, a south transept lit by a great rose window, and the grave of the astronomer James Bradley.
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Market House, Minchinhampton
Sight · Historic building · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton's Market House was built in 1698 by the lord of the manor, Philip Sheppard, for the wool and yarn trade: an open arcade on stone piers with a hall above. Listed Grade II*, it still holds a country market on Wednesday mornings.