Fourways was erected in 1867 as the first hospital in the Mansfield area - Mansfield Woodhouse & District Hospital & Convalescent Home. Across the road from the site there is a row of terraced houses with the title 'Hospital Terrace'. The hospital was converted to a public house in the 20th century.
The building is present on the 1879 Ordnance Survey (OS) map of the area, marked as 'Hospital'. It can also be seen on the 1899 OS map, by now marked as 'Mansfield Woodhouse Hospital', and with an extension to the north-west. The hospital has the same footprint on the 1917 OS map, but this later extension was removed after 1917.
Fourways is a two-storey building of stone construction and has a number of different connecting elevations. It has a pitched, tiled roof and large decorative chimneys. There is a substantial bay window on the Butt Lane elevation, and a gable-end and porch facing Leeming Lane South. The window openings have stone surrounds, cills, lintels and mullions, but are currently boarded up.
Fourways, Mansfield Woodhouse is built in the standard traditional style for the area and is essentially domestic in appearance. It is not an early example of a convalescent home or innovative in design. Photographic and map evidence indicates there have been sequential additions and alterations to the building which will have altered the original plan form. The later adaptation to a public house is also believed to have significantly altered the internal plan of the building.. (1)

Present on the 1879 Ordnance Survey. (2)

Fourways is a two-storey building of stone construction and has a number of different connecting elevations. It has a pitched, tiled roof and large decorative chimneys. There is a substantial bay window on the Butt Lane elevation, and a gable-end and porch facing Leeming Lane South. The window openings have stone surrounds,cills, lintels and mullions, but are currently boarded up. (3)

Subject to an Article 4 direction dated 02.08.2012.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> English Heritage, 19/12/2011, Designation Assessment Report No. 468694 (Unpublished document). SNT2592.

<2> OS, 1879, 1:2500, County Series 1879 (Map). SNT2461.

<3> Mansfield District Council, 2004, Mansfield District Council Local List (Published document). SNT5967.