Gnaton Hall

Gnaton Hall is a country house set in landscaped gardens, built around 1826 on or near the site of an earlier house constructed by Walter Hele, the son of Sir John Hele of Wembury House. It is likely designed by J. Birch of London for Henry H. R. Roe. The house features stuccoed walls with rusticated quoins and a hipped slate roof that has a moulded cornice and a blocking course. A conically roofed lantern sits over the center, topped with a wrought iron weathervane. The building has a near square double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a 2:3:2 bay arrangement. The central three bays project forward and are topped with a pediment. Large sash windows with glazing bars are present, including a late 19th-century splayed bay window on the left side of the ground floor. The central doorway is framed by a massive Doric porch with panelled double doors and a rectangular fanlight.

On the south elevation, there are three bays featuring a central semi-circular two-storeyed bay with tripartite sashes adorned with blind bosses, along with a Victorian glazed verandah on the ground floor. The interior retains many contemporary features, including a central staircase with an oval lantern, intricate plasterwork, joinery, and fine marble chimneypieces. Two ground floor rooms on the south side were converted into a music room in the late 19th century, featuring a dividing screen with two fluted columns and a ceiling decorated with naturalistic painted flowers in roundels and borders. The former adjoining Roman Catholic Chapel of St Mary has been dismantled. Material from the earlier house includes a large stone reset into a 19th-century stable range to the southwest, inscribed "PER W. A. HELE AR: 1596", and 16th-century stone door frames that have been reused in the kitchen garden walls and bothy.