Guy's Cliffe has a long and varied history...
From its humble beginnings as a secluded place of worship in the 5th century... The legends of Sir Guy of Warwick which secured its place in folklore... The establishment of a chapel in the 15th century by will of King Henry V...
The Tudor period ownership as a timber framed house...
Leading into its ownership and creation of the familiar Palladian Georgian style house by Samuel Greatheed, Member of Parliament for Coventry and also a St. Kitts and Nevis sugar plantation owner ... Its ownership by the Heber-Percy family, its use as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in the First World War and during the Second World War as a Boys Home by the Waifs and Strays Society...
The steady and sad decline into the romantic partial ruin... Right up to the present day under its ownership by the Freemasons & ongoing preservation by the Friends of Guy's Cliffe... This old & historically significant property has yet many things to offer...