'I thought tonight sitting here, it is the loveliest place in the world.'
- Agatha Christie
The National Trust is tantalisingly close to starting a major restoration project at Greenway in Devon, the only surviving home of Agatha Christie.
Greenway is Devon's best kept secret, an evocative Georgian house and woodland garden with breathtaking views of the Dart Estuary.
© NTPL / Andrea Jones
Sadly, the house is in urgent need of repair before it can be opened to the public.
Greenway House needs to be repaired and restored urgently to prevent further potentially catastrophic deterioration.
Support our vital campaign so that work can begin
We hope to recreate the atmosphere in the house as it was in its most recent heyday, as a much-loved holiday home in the 1950s.
Greenway was given to the National Trust by Agatha Christie's family in 2000. Its magical gardens have been open since that time.
© Kevin Clifford Photography
As the retirement home of Dame Agatha's daughter and son-in-law, Rosalind and Anthony Hicks, the house was closed to visitors.
Following their deaths in 2004 and 2005, it has now passed to us. Agatha Christie's grandson Mathew Prichard has now made the hugely generous gift of the house's collections and interiors.
With your gift today, we can begin work to restore the house and present the marvellous collections amassed by five generations of the family.
How your gift will help
Donations are urgently needed to repair subsiding walls and dangerously sagging floors. The structural repairs alone are estimated to cost £3.5 million.
- £15 could help restore and redecorate the library which includes an extraordinary frieze painted by US Naval officer Lt Marshall Lee when the house was requisitioned during the Second World War
- £50 could help restore Greenway’s interior, conserve Agatha Christie’s furniture, and build secure display cases for her extremely valuable books
- £25 could help catalogue and reveal Agatha Christie's amazing collections which remain under lock and key
© Kevin Clifford Photography
Donate today
Because the total cost of saving Greenway House and giving us all access to its fascinating collections will be well over £5 million, your support is urgently needed.
With your support, we are determined to start the work as soon as possible, with the goal of opening this wonderful house from March 2009.
Please make a gift to help unlock Greenway’s unique secrets today. Thank you.
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