Description

SX 85 SE, 9/36

KINGSWEAR,
GREENWAY ROAD,
Greenway House

II*

Country house in landscaped gardens overlooking River Dart. Built 1780-90,
remodelled and extended in early C19. Stuccoed stone rubble. Slate hipped roof.
Parapet and dentilled cornice. Three storeys. Five bays. Sash windows, with
vertical glazing bars only, in moulded architraves with cornices to first and
ground storeys. Central plain round-headed doorway with semicircular fanlight
and glazed double doors, and early C19 porch with Tuscan columns. Early C19
single storey one bay wings left and right with tripartite sashes complete with
glazing bars and loggias each with two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting
entablature. The left-hand (west) wing has wide segmental bow on west side.
Stuccoed chimney stacks over side walls with moulded cornices. Service wing at
rear. Interior: Stairwell has moulded plaster rib vault with bosses displaying
arm of Elton impaling Marwood and plaster modillion cornice. Plain stairs with
stick balusters and wreathed handrail to column newel. Two good late C18 marble
chimneypieces and C18/19 iron grates, moulded plaster cornices, friezes and
centrepieces. Original mahogany doors. In the dining room (to east) two curved
doors. Other late C18 and early C19 joinery intact. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(Compton Castle q.v.) is reputed to have been born at Greenwood about 1539 although
there are no remains of a C16 house. He founded the first British colony in
North America in Newfoundland in 1583.
Reference: W G Hodens 'A New Survey of
England, Devon', pages 206 and 369.

Listing NGR: SX8720954755

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Greenway at Wikipedia
• Greenway official website
• Wikidata Q1544827

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)