Introduction
This is a mainly formal garden of around 5 hectares, incorporating 17th-, 19th- and 20th-century features.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01386 700754Website
https://www.bourtonhouse.comAccess contact details
The gardens are open every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from May to October. Group bookings can also be arranged.
Directions
The gardens lie on the A44 west of Moreton-in-Marsh.
Other Websites
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Designations
The National Heritage List for England: Register of Parks and Gardens
- Reference: GD1748
- Grade: II
Features
- Walk
- Description: There is a late-17th-century raised walk.
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- Kitchen Garden
- Orchard
- Specimen Tree
- Description: The walled pasture around the house has several specimen trees.
- Sculpture
- Description: The walled pasture around the house has sculpture within it.
- House (featured building)
- Description: The early-18th-century house is built on the footprint of the 16th-century foursquare Jacobean house. In the rebuild the house was taken down to its lower ground floor, the towers were retained and slits replaced by windows.
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- Knot Garden
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
Hectares
5
Open to the public
Yes
Civil Parish
Bourton-on-the-Hi
- References
References
- Atkyns, Robert Sir and Bowyer, William {The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire} (London: W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling, 1712), pp. 291-3 The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire
- Rudder, Samuel {A New History of Gloucestershire} (Cirencester: S. Rudder, 1779), pp. 301-3 A New History of Gloucestershire
- Kingsley, Nicholas {The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Vol. II 1660-1830} (Chichester: Kingsley, Nicholas, 1992), pp. 82-3 The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Vol. II 1660-1830
- Verey, David {The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds} (London: Penguin, 1970), pp. 186-8 The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds
- Sales, J., {West Country Gardens} (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1980), p. 44 West Country gardens : the gardens of Gloucestershire, Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire
- {The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester} ([n.p.]: Oxford University Press, Volume 6, 1965), pp. 197-206 Victoria County History: Gloucester, Volume 6
Contributors
D.G. Chambaerlayne
Gloucestershire Gardens and Landscape Trust