Bourton House GardenTea Room

Bourton House Garden's tea room occupies a Grade I listed sixteenth-century tithe barn that also forms the entrance to the garden around it. The garden was created from a neglected plot by Mr and Mrs R Paice, who bought Bourton House in 1983 and opened it to visitors in 1987 under the National Garden Scheme; it passed to new private owners in 2010 and remains independently run. Features include shaped topiary, a shade house, water fed by natural springs, and deep herbaceous borders, recognised with the HHA/Christie's Garden of the Year award in 2007. The tea room is run by caterer Carolyn Coleman with her husband Tom, serving tea, coffee, and home-made cakes, alongside a small shop selling cards and gifts. On fine days tea is taken in the old orchard behind the barn.