Guyers House

Guyers House is a house, largely dating to the late 17th century, with alterations in the 19th century and an early 19th-century front range. The rear portion is built of rubble stone, while the front is ashlar, all covered by slate roofs. The front range is two storeys high, with three windows, and has a projecting central bay, a raised band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. A Roman Doric columned porch shelters a central arched doorway. A late 19th-century addition, featuring a two-storey canted bay, extends to the right. The original building survives at the rear, although the roof was altered in the 19th century.

The north front is three storeys high, with four upper four-pane windows in ovolo-moulded surrounds, each with a hood mould and a dripcourse. The dripcourse steps up over the right-hand single light on the first floor. There are six irregularly spaced two-light windows, all with ovolo-moulded surrounds. The ground floor features a dripcourse stepped over the single light, and mullion windows have been replaced with a single 24-pane window and a 12-pane window to the left of the door, and a pair of 12-pane windows to the right. A plank door is set within a moulded surround with a hood supported on brackets. A lean-to on the north-west angle connects to a single-storey outbuilding, 'The Cottage.' An east-facing wing is attached, comprising two parallel ranges, apparently representing a 17th-century ‘L’-plan house with paired barn ranges to the north.

The west front has a half-hipped cross-wing, ovolo-moulded windows, dripcourses, irregular window spacing, and a cart entry above which is a six-pane window. The roof is hipped to the south and continues to a hipped north gable. The rear parallel range has a half-hipped roof, a timber lintel to the cart entry, and two dormer gables with ovolo-moulded windows, with an external stack to the house range at the left end. The south end wall has an upper three-light window with a hood mould, and a lower 20th-century mullion-and-transom window.

The house was part of a holding belonging to the Snelling family in the 16th century, and was sold in 1678 to E. Bayley, who may have rebuilt it. It was later owned by the Bennett and Dickinson families. A late 17th-century illustration on an estate map shows the north front broadly similar to the present appearance, but with four dormer gables to the second floor.