Bourton House

Bourton House is a manor house located in Bourton-on-the-Hill, dating from the early 18th century. It was rebuilt on the foundations of a late 16th-century house, of which the cellars remain. The building has a 19th-century extension and a conservatory. It features a rectangular plan with corners that extend out to form engaged square 'towers', and a small 19th-century bathroom extension to the right of the right-hand 'tower'. The 19th-century conservatory is attached to the left of the rear left 'tower'.

Constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof, the house has limestone gable end coping and ashlar stacks. The facade is two storeys high with an attic, lit by four 2-light dormers featuring 20th-century casements. The cellar creates a projecting plinth for the later facade. The symmetrical facade has a 1:5:1 window arrangement with 18-pane sash windows. The ground floor sashes have wide glazing bars, except for those in the towers. All sashes are adorned with moulded architraves and bull-nosed sills. A string course runs between the ground and first floor windows, becoming a band on either side of the central doorway. The parapet has moulded coping and a string, with a triangular pediment supported by Ionic pilasters from the projecting towers. The central entrance features a 12-light part-glazed door accessed by seven steps, with a moulded segmental pediment supported by fluted Ionic pilasters above. The cellar is lit by 2-light stone-mullioned casements with leaded lights, and there is an ovolo-moulded mullion on a blocked cellar window in the left 'tower'.

The roof has three parallel ridges with large square gable end stacks that have moulded caps at the ends of each ridge, and saddleback gable coping. Inside, there is an 18th-century open well staircase with thin turned wooden balusters. Some of the panelling is reused from the 16th-century house, along with wood from its doors repurposed for doors to the upper floor. The interior has had limited inspection.

The property features seven semi-circular steps flanked by 18th-century wrought iron railings with scroll decoration and urn finials.