The Old Brewhouse, Bourton House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. A Post-Medieval Former bakery.

The Old Brewhouse, Bourton House

WRENN ID
young-wattle-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1985
Type
Former bakery
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
The Old Brewhouse, Bourton House, Main Street, Bourton-On-The-Hill
OS grid reference
SP 177 324
Coordinates
51.99022, -1.74266
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Brewhouse, located at Bourton House in Bourton-on-the-Hill, is a detached store that was originally a bakery. It dates back to the late 16th century and was built for Richard Palmer. The structure is made of large coursed squared and dressed limestone blocks, topped with a 20th-century concrete tile roof featuring limestone gable end coping and an ashlar stack. The building has a rectangular plan and is a single storey high.

The windows are arranged irregularly, including a stable-type single window with wooden ventilation slits on the far left, a 6-light stone mullioned casement with unusually tall diamond leaded lights, and a central plank door with cover strips set in a flat-chamfered surround. To the right of the door, there is a 3-light stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood. Braces are positioned on either side of the door, and the left corner of the building is cut away to incorporate a ball finial. The flat gable end coping features roll-cross finials, and there is a single stack located off centre to the right.

Local climate

The Old Brewhouse, Bourton House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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