Greyhounds

Greyhounds occupies a fifteenth-century building at 19-23 Sheep Street in Burford, built originally for a wool merchant and later used as a coaching inn and then a Temperance hotel before being converted to a private house in 1908. From 1949 until 2003 it was the office of The Countryman magazine, edited by its founder J.W. Robertson Scott, and a blue plaque on the front of the building records this history. The current owners bought the property in 1999 and have run it as a bed and breakfast since, offering rooms including a ground-floor four-poster suite with an ensuite shower room, a garden four-poster room opening onto a private courtyard, and twin and double rooms overlooking Sheep Street. The building forms part of a stone-fronted, tree-lined streetscape of merchant houses dating from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. It operates as accommodation only, with no restaurant or bar on site, and remains privately owned rather than part of a hotel group.