Griff House is the childhood home of George Eliot, on the road to Coventry, south of Nuneaton, where Eliot (as Mary Ann Evans) lived from the age of 1 to 21.
[1] The building, off the Griff Roundabout on the A444 is now the Griff House Beefeater & Nuneaton Premier Travel Inn on Coventry Road, Nuneaton (CV10 7PJ).
[2] The Griff Farm buildings, which Mary's father Robert Evans farmed, are now divided by a wall from Griff House.
The George Eliot Fellowship in August 2013 made representation to preserve some of the outbuildings.
[3][4] The house was also once home to the cartographer and Fellow of the Royal Society Henry Beighton best known for his map of Warwickshire (1727/8).