Greenway House

Greenway House is a country house set in landscaped gardens that overlook the River Dart. It was built between 1780 and 1790 and was later remodeled and extended in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of stuccoed stone rubble and features a slate hipped roof, a parapet, and a dentilled cornice. It has three storeys and five bays, with sash windows that have vertical glazing bars, all set in moulded architraves with cornices on the first and ground storeys.

The central entrance has a plain round-headed doorway with a semicircular fanlight and glazed double doors, along with an early 19th-century porch supported by Tuscan columns. There are single-storey wings on both the left and right sides, each with tripartite sashes that include glazing bars and loggias featuring two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting an entablature. The left wing has a wide segmental bow on its west side. The house also has stuccoed chimney stacks on the side walls, topped with moulded cornices, and a service wing at the rear.

Inside, the stairwell boasts a moulded plaster rib vault adorned with bosses that display the arms of Elton impaling Marwood, along with a plaster modillion cornice. The staircase features plain steps with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail leading to a column newel. There are two notable late 18th-century marble chimneypieces and 18th and 19th-century iron grates, as well as moulded plaster cornices, friezes, and centrepieces throughout. The original mahogany doors remain, and in the dining room to the east, there are two curved doors. Much of the late 18th and early 19th-century joinery is still intact.

Historically, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who is known for founding the first British colony in North America in Newfoundland in 1583, is reputed to have been born at Greenway around 1539, although there are no remnants of a 16th-century house.