Bibury Court
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{{Infobox Historic Site
| name = Bibury Court
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| image = Bibury Court Hotel (geograph 2856845).jpg
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| caption = Bibury Court during its days as a hotel
| locmapin = Gloucestershire
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| map_caption = Location in Gloucestershire
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| coordinates = {{coord|51|45|24|N|1|49|34|W|type:landmark_region:GB-GLS|display=title,inline}}
| location = Bibury, Gloucestershire, England
| designation1 = Grade I
| designation1_offname = Bibury Court Hotel
| designation1_date = 23 January 1952
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| designation1_number = 1155708{{National Heritage List for England| num=1155708 |desc=Bibury Court Hotel |grade=I |accessdate=28 October 2015}} }}
Bibury Court is a Grade I listed Jacobean country house in Bibury, Gloucestershire, England.
The River Coln flows to the south of the property.{{cite web |title=The Bibury Court Estate |url=https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3176051/doc_0_0.pdf |publisher=On the Market |accessdate=3 March 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303174208/https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3176051/doc_0_0.pdf |url-status=live }}
History
File:Bibury Court Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 1440335.jpg
The house was built between 1560 and 1599,{{cite news |last1=Churchill |first1=Penny |title=Country houses for sale in the Cotswolds |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-in-the-cotswolds-16119 |accessdate=3 March 2020 |work=Country Life |date=22 September 2016 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303174206/https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-in-the-cotswolds-16119 |url-status=live }} and was first extended in 1633 for Sir Thomas Sackville.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel/79144/Bibury-Court-hotel-Cotswolds-Gloucestershire-review.html|title=Bibury Court hotel, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire|newspaper=The Telegraph|accessdate=25 May 2015|archive-date=1 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001072338/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel/79144/Bibury-Court-hotel-Cotswolds-Gloucestershire-review.html|url-status=live}} Later additions have since been made and the 16th-century building now forms the north wing. The Sackville family including their heirs the Cresswells owned it until 1816 when it was sold to Lord Sherborne. Thomas Estcourt Cresswell had the interior remodelled around 1759.
Sir Orme Clarke Bt CBE bought the house in the 1920s along with most of the surrounding Bibury estate from Lords Sherbourne and lived there with his wife Elfrida (née Roosevelt). The House was sold by Sir Humphrey Clarke Bt in 1963 following the death of his mother but he, and later his son, Sir Tobias Clarke Bt, retained the Court Estate until the 1980s. The northern portion of the estate known as Kilkenny Farm was sold to S. J. Phillips & Sons (Kemble) Ltd who had been tenant farmers to the Clarke family. The house was converted into a hotel in 1968, and back into a private home in 2015, when it was purchased and renovated by the star designer Marc Newson and his wife, fashion stylist Charlotte Stockdale.{{cite news |last1=Archer |first1=Megan |title=Bibury Court Hotel to be transformed into large country house due to business decline |url=https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/11673370.bibury-court-hotel-to-be-transformed-into-large-country-house-due-to-business-decline/ |accessdate=3 March 2020 |work=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard |date=18 December 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303174208/https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/11673370.bibury-court-hotel-to-be-transformed-into-large-country-house-due-to-business-decline/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2022-06-07 |title=Designer Marc Newson’s offshore inspiration |url=https://www.afr.com/rear-window/designer-marc-newson-s-offshore-inspiration-20220607-p5arp0 |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=Australian Financial Review |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Bibury Court - Planning and Heritage Statement |url=https://docs.planning.org.uk/20211103/123/R1Q8SLFIMH100/u4imd9l3nglfefym.pdf |access-date=2022-01-21 |website=planning.org.uk}}
Architecture
The house and outbuildings are of Cotswold stone. The entrance walls and gateway date from the early 18th century.{{NHLE |desc=Entrance walls and gateway approximately 120m to north of Bibury Court Hotel |num=1088399 |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |access-date=26 October 2022}} The 16th-century house now forms the north wing. The east front has a symmetrical centre with the north and south wings to either side. When it was a hotel, the property offered 18 rooms.{{Cite web |title=Bibury Court Hotel to be transformed into large country house due to business decline |url=https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/11673370.bibury-court-hotel-to-be-transformed-into-large-country-house-due-to-business-decline/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard |language=en}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Bibury Court}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150716002148/http://www.biburycourt.com/ Former hotel website]
- [https://www.bibury.com Bibury Village site]
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Category:Country houses in Gloucestershire
Category:Hotels in Gloucestershire
Category:Houses completed in 1633
Category:Hotels established in 1968
Category:Jacobean architecture in the United Kingdom
Category:Grade I listed houses in Gloucestershire