Guyers House

Part of the reason that Guyers House Hotel & Restaurant has such a friendly, homely atmosphere is that it was never intended to be a stately home - it's just a home that grew as people fiddled with it through the centuries. Queen Elizabeth did not sleep here and nor to our knowledge did anyone else of note before we became a hotel! Guyers House started modestly as a farmhouse one room thick built in about 1670 by a Mr. Snelling, who named it Snellings after himself.

This sketch shows what it looked like then. In about 1830, by which time it had been rebadged as Guyers, the house was gentrified by attaching a completely new set of rooms with a smart Georgian facade to what had been the back of the house. At the same time another storey was added to the original house to make bedrooms for servants and the original front door was demoted to the tradesman's entrance.