Above: one of the reception room. Guy said of the house and grounds: “It was fundamentally a compact estate. It had a farm and a farm manager’s house and estate cottages.”
Over time the estate was fragmented. The estate did own a lot of land in Clive. Over the years it has been sold off and scaled down.” Guy said that the crunch for the estate came in 1919 when the family lost a son in the First World War.
Guy said: “There is a plaque to him in Clive Church. He was a captain who died when interrogating prisoners of war. I got the impression he must have been the only son because the hall was immediately sold.”
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