Property Information
Vine Cottage is a delightful listed cottage located just off Burford's historic High Street with its antique shops, tea rooms and pubs. Excellent restaurants are within five minutes walk. The accommodation is equipped to a very high standard with plenty of character and period features. Outside is a sheltered Cotswold stone walled patio for outdoor eating, with the mature vine that gives the cottage its name.
ACCOMMODATION:
Sitting / Dining area with comfortable sofa and armchair around a woodburning stove, television, flagstone floor with rugs, window seat, dining table and chairs.
Kitchen, recently refitted with electric cooker, microwave, fridge/freezer and washing machine.
Upstairs:
Bedroom One with king size double bed.
Bathroom with bath, handheld shower, WC and washbasin.
Bedroom Two - reached via steep stairs - with single bed*, low beamed ceiling, not suitable for very young children or the elderly.
Outside
There is a garden with a table and chairs. (Owing to the quirks of cottage's history, there is access through the garden for other residents within the terrace of properties!)
Central heating & electricity included all year. Cot available....'.babe in arms' only. * Third person charged at £40 per booking or use of second bedroom similarly. On-street parking.
No pets. No smokers. Friday changeover.
Burford is an ideal centre for visiting The Cotswolds area as it is within easy driving distance of popular attractions such as Blenheim Palace, Sudley Castle, Warwick Castle, Cotswold Wildlife Park - a particular favourite with children! and several National Trust Houses and Gardens. Bourton on the Water, Bibury, Cirencester and Stow on the Wold are all with 25 minutes from the property.
Local Information
Burford is possibly one of the most famous of the Cotswolds' locations. With its medieval bridge, old stone houses and attractive Tudor and Georgian frontages, Burford is justifiably one of the most picturesque towns in England. Often referred to as the ‘Gateway to the Cotswolds’, the town was originally a fortified Anglo-Saxon ford which later grew to be an important regional crossroads and wealthy wool town.
The 16th century Tolsey building, once the meeting place for medieval merchants, now houses The Tolsey Museum, a delightful local museum illustrating the town's social and industrial past. The fine church is a real gem with many interesting memorials charting some of Burford's great families. There is also the signature, on the baptisimal font, of Antony Sedley, one of the Levellers besieged in the church in 1649 - three of the ringleaders were executed by Oliver Cromwell's men in the churchyard.
Little changed over the centuries, Burford is popular with visitors, both for its beauty and history but also for its shopping and antiques, and for the wide variety of places to eat, with restaurants, pubs and teashops. Burford is an ideal base for visiting The Cotswolds area as it is within easy driving distance of popular attractions such as Blenheim Palace, Sudley Castle, Warwick Castle and several National Trust Houses and Gardens. Bourton on the Water, Bibury, Cirencester and Stow on the Wold are all with 25 minutes from the property.