Self-catering · Temple Guiting
Temple Guiting Manor & Barns
A Grade I manor house and four converted farm buildings in 14.5 acres at Temple Guiting, let for exclusive-use holidays, celebrations and weddings for up to 32 guests.
Family-friendly · Hot tubs · Wedding venues
For a big family or a group of friends who want a whole estate to themselves: a manor, a barn and smaller hideaways, with a heated pool, tennis and a lake. It is priced and booked as a private house party, not a weekend for two.
- Good: Sleeps up to 32 across five buildings, or book the Manor or Barn on its own
- Good: Outdoor pool heated and open all year, plus a lake for boating and wild swimming
- Good: Hot tubs at the Manor and the Barn; tennis court, gym and cinema room
- Worth knowing: Minimum stays of two to seven nights, seven in July, August, Christmas and New Year
- Worth knowing: Booked by enquiry, not online; extras such as a chef and housekeeping cost more
- Worth knowing: The website says nothing about dogs: ask before booking
About
Temple Guiting Manor & Barns is a private estate of about 14.5 acres in Temple Guiting, a village on the upper Windrush. At its heart is a six-bedroom Grade I listed manor house, dated by Historic England to the early sixteenth century, with grounds laid out by Jinny Blom; tradition has it that the bishops of Oxford once kept it as a summer residence. Around it are a five-bedroom barn conversion, a one-bedroom Peacock Shed, a three-bedroom Granary and a one-bedroom Cow Byre.
The Manor and the Barn can be taken on their own or together with the smaller buildings, up to the whole estate for 32 guests. The estate has an outdoor pool, which the owner says is heated and open all year, a lake for boating and wild swimming, an all-weather tennis court, a children's play area, a gym and yoga studio, and a cinema room; the Manor and the Barn each have a hot tub. The Peacock Shed in the secret garden is licensed for civil weddings of up to 45 guests.
Stays are booked by enquiry, with minimum stays from two nights in winter to a week in high summer. Linen, towels, robes and welcome provisions are included; a private chef, housekeeping and treatments can be added. Check-in is from 4pm and check-out by 11am; a late check-out, up to 6pm, costs 75% of an extra night. Three travel cots and highchairs are free, first come, first served. The owner says the main houses have high-speed broadband, and the estate's listing on Mr & Mrs Smith adds free wifi, ample free parking, a set of mobility ramps and an accessible ground-floor bedroom in the Barn, though the estate is largely gravel. Families with young children have Cotswold Farm Park a few minutes' drive away.
The details
- Rooms
- 5
- Check-in
- From 4pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Minimum stay
- Two to seven nights by season; seven (Fri to Fri) in July, August, Christmas and New Year.
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Swimming pool · Gym · Play area · Events and meetings · Wi-Fi · Parking
- History
- Grade I manor house of the early 16th century, restored by its owner
Photos
The manor from the drive 
The dining hall 
A bedroom 
The canal garden
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Plough Inn, Ford 1.4 km away
- Zonda at the Halfway 1.6 km away
- Cotswold Farm Park 2.5 km away
- Cotswold Farm Park Holidays 2.5 km away
Sights nearby
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Beckbury Camp, Hailes
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Winchcombe
An Iron Age hillfort on the Cotswold edge above Hailes, near Winchcombe, its bank still up to 4m high, with the nineteenth-century monument called Cromwell's Seat, where the story goes that Thomas Cromwell watched Hailes Abbey burn. On the Cotswold Way.
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St Michael's Church, Guiting Power
Sight · Church · Guiting Power
Guiting Power’s Norman church of about 1180, open daily, with two carved twelfth-century doorways (one capital a head with its tongue out), a fifteenth-century tower, transepts of 1820 and 1844 and Green Men in its roof. Grade II*; accessible toilet in the churchyard.
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Hailes Church
Sight · Church · Winchcombe
A little twelfth-century church at Hailes, near Winchcombe, older than the abbey across the lane, with fourteenth-century paintings of heraldry and beasts, a giant St Christopher, medieval tiles and screen, and seventeenth-century pews. Grade I.